On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 07:39:14PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 11:49 -0800, Andi Kleen wrote: > [...] > > I implemented an automatic downloader to get the event file for the > > current CPU. The events are stored in ~/.events. > [...] > > This directory should be placed under $XDG_CACHE_DIR (default: > ~/.cache), and should have a more specific name like 'perf-events'.
Ok. I don't like calling it perf-events because it will be used by other non perf tools too. I guess pmu-events could do. > > It might be useful to also support a system directory for these, > under /var/cache. I don't want people shipping those. It just causes lots of outdated events everywhere, like in oprofile. -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
