linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/11] perf, tools: Add support for reading JSON event files

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Message-ID: <20140718174018.GF18735@two.firstfloor.org>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:40:18 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, jolsa@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, namhyung@...nel.org,
	acme@...radead.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] perf, tools: Add support for reading JSON event
 files

> On powerpc our event names are always uppercase, it would be nice if the perf
> list output honoured that.
> 
> Can we instead just honour whatever case is in the input JSON ?

Intel events are upper case too. However perf is not into shouting
in general, so I chose to lower everything.

> 
> It looks like the event lookup is already case insensitive.

Yes if you want you can specify them upper case.

-Andi
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