Re: perf: Add support for full Intel event lists v3

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

On 13 May 2014 00:51, Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I implemented an automatic downloader to get the event file for the
> current CPU.  The events are stored in ~/.events.
> Then perf adds a parser that converts the JSON format into perf event
> aliases, which then can be used directly as any other perf event.

Should the name of the file not more specific? I mean .events can mean
everything? Every program may have a demand for this generic name. Why
not ~/.perf-events? Even more standard [1]:
$XDG_CACHE_HOME/perf/events (i.e. ~/.cache/perf/events)

[1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
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