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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:37:55 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <srostedt@...hat.com>
To:	John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: dont hardcode path to lsmod

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 17:29 +0100, John Kacur wrote:

> diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> index 0d80082..1803d2e 100644
> --- a/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> +++ b/scripts/kconfig/streamline_config.pl
> @@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ foreach my $makefile (@makefiles) {
>  my %modules;
>  
>  # see what modules are loaded on this system
> -open(LIN,"/sbin/lsmod|") || die "Cant lsmod";
> +# If lsmod isn't in the sbin dir, check if it is in the path
> +open(LIN,"/sbin/lsmod|") || open(LIN,"lsmod|") || die "Cant lsmod";

I've tried this before, but it gives an error that the "|" pipe failed.

-- Steve


>  while (<LIN>) {
>  	next if (/^Module/);  # Skip the first line.
>  	if (/^(\S+)/) {

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