From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965609AbcHDRAB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 13:00:01 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:39080 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965173AbcHDQ77 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Aug 2016 12:59:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 18:59:51 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Mathieu Poirier Cc: acme@kernel.org, jolsa@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Alexander Shishkin Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] perf/core: Adding PMU driver specific configuration Message-ID: <20160804165951.GU6862@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1469742143-22245-1-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> <1469742143-22245-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1469742143-22245-2-git-send-email-mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23.1 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:42:18PM -0600, Mathieu Poirier wrote: > This patch somewhat mimics the work done on address filters to > add the infrastructure needed to pass PMU specific HW > configuration to the driver before a session starts. I'm thinking we want to specify a syntax and validate the string matches the syntax in the generic code.