linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH]perf/core: remove newline char in perf_event_sysfs

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Message-ID: <20150528113214.GF3644@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:	Thu, 28 May 2015 13:32:14 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]perf/core: remove newline char in perf_event_sysfs_show

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:59:26PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> When a event also carries a event.unit file, having newline char
> will make perf userspace tool to print the event name in
> the next line when dumping counter data.

And changing the kernel will break the API (it includes a '\n' now) so
fix the tool.
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