Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf, tools: Don't force MetricExprs to lower case

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 07:07:29AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:

SNIP

> > 
> > > The only real fix would be probably to add some unique 
> > > prefix for BPF, but that would break all existing users.
> > 
> > 
> > yea, there was no response from bpf folks, but it's  probably not an optio
> > 
> > how about checking if the file exist like below..
> 
> I presume that would interact badly with good error messages for typos
> for file names.

it'd misplaced them for event names.. maybe not big deal

jirka