Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:04:44 +0300 | From | Adrian Hunter <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 20/41] perf tools: Let a user specify a PMU event without any config terms |
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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.
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