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Message-ID: <4ABA3732.3040907@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:56:50 +0300
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
CC:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Re: [perf] Finding uninstalled modules Was Re: mailing
 list for trace users

On 09/23/2009 05:52 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
>> The trace shows modules.dep was picked up from /lib/modules/2.6.31, so
>> if it continued that and picked up the modules from the same place,
>> everything would work.  Why does it try to pick up the modules from cwd?
>>      
> I don't know where that cwd is coming from off the top of my head.
>
> The symbol loading code reads the path stored in modules.dep, and chops
> at ':'.
>    

Well, you don't need to do anything to open a file from cwd: that's the 
default.  You need to actively prepend /lib/modules/blah to get it to 
load from the correct location.  What I don't understand is why it is 
only hitting me (esp. as it used to work).

-- 
error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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