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

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 06:09:20PM +0200, Hagen Paul Pfeifer wrote:
> 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)

It's already pmu-events, but I forgot to update the description.

-Andi
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