Re: [PATCH 1/8] perf tools: Add '.' as part of the event 'name' token

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Mon Feb 04 2013 - 02:31:15 EST


On Sun, Feb 03, 2013 at 09:37:16PM +0100, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > * Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

SNIP

> Adding the option for users to link with libpfm4 was no big
> deal in my mind. You are opposed to that. That's your
> choice. I don't buy your arguments for this patch series
> and will continue to provide a patch to link perf and libpfm4
> for users who are interested.
>
> I would have appreciated some discussion on this instead, once
> again, work was done behind closed door and thrown at my face.

Not sure why you think it was 'closed door'.. I needed some way to
access those events and sent RFC for it with you being on CC list.

> The worst being that as far I can see in the patches, no proper
> credits to libpfm4 contributors is even given for providing the raw
> information that allowed you to build your event tables without too

Right, sorry for that.. I'll add it.

> much sweat! Building electronic event tables from vendor specs is
> a lot harder than it seems, but you may not know this.

jirka
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