Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 20:22:14 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/41] perf tools: Let a user specify a PMU event without any config terms |
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 06:04:44PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > On 16/07/2014 5:25 p.m., Jiri Olsa wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 01:02:44PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > >>This enables a PMU event to be specified in the form: > >> > >> pmu// > >> > >>which is effectively the same as: > >> > >> pmu/config=0/ > >> > >>This patch is a precursor to defining > >>default config for a PMU. > > > >I understand the need for default config, but could you please elaborate > >why do we want to parse 'pmu//' as an event string string? > > Currently the parser requires the slashes to identify a PMU event > as opposed to a hardware or other kind of event.
right, so why do we want to parse 'pmu//' as an event string? ;-)
jirka
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