Re: [PATCH 1/1 tip] perf top: Move hard coded list to /etc/perfconfig/symbols.skip

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de
> Melo<acme@redhat.com> wrote:
> > This also paves the way to add more symbol lists to be filtered out,
> > spinlock anyone?
> 
> Generally, the way I've found is best to handle things like this is to either:
> 
> A. Have a fall-back list to use if the file isn't found, or
> B. Start with the fall-back list of symbols to filter, then add to
> them via /etc/... and ~/.perf/...
> 
> I like approaching things from the 'everything works even in a
> broken/hasty installation' point of view, and it's paid off for me.
> Sane defaults are a wonderfully useful thing.

Agreed.

Also, i'd not pollute /etc just yet, please lets define a good 
default built-in list like we have now, and perhaps enable the 
extension of it via .perf/config.

Tools should work well by default.

	Ingo