Re: [RFC 2/2] perf/core: change errno for sampling event not supported in hardware

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 10:53:43PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:

> Right thats what I feared. But hold on, I don't think we need to change the ABI to
> achieve what we want. Gosh why did I even take that path.
> 
> Currently the errno switch case in perf_evsel__open_strerror() in doesn't handle
> ENOTSUPP. So how about we add that - augmented with the same sample_period !0
> check to barf for lack of sampling support.
> 
> Do you see anything wrong with that ?

Should work I think.