Re: [PATCH 04/27] perf list: Add support for listing only json events

[Andi Kleen]

> What we do know about the CPU vendor event names is that they are vendor specific, 
> and that's a pretty stable property. So my suggestion would be to simply make it:
> 
> 	perf list vendor
> 
> with perhaps add aliases as well:
> 
> 	perf list model
> 	perf list cpu-model
> 
> ... and 'perf list hardware' should probably also list all the vendor specific 
> hardware events as well.

Sure can change it.

> 
> Could we please work a bit more on making vendor specific hardware event handling 
> more usable to people who don't care about internals?

Do you prefer fully new patches, or are incremential patches ok? 

-Andi