linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Don't force MetricExprs to lower case

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Message-ID: <20171009144319.GC1561@krava>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2017 16:43:19 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Don't force MetricExprs to lower case

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:07:29AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:

SNIP

> > 
> > > The only real fix would be probably to add some unique 
> > > prefix for BPF, but that would break all existing users.
> > 
> > 
> > yea, there was no response from bpf folks, but it's  probably not an optio
> > 
> > how about checking if the file exist like below..
> 
> I presume that would interact badly with good error messages for typos
> for file names.

it'd misplaced them for event names.. maybe not big deal

jirka