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From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
To: Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC V2 1/3] perf, tools: Support wildcards on pmu name in dynamic pmu events
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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:55:19 -0800
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Agustin Vega-Frias <agustinv@codeaurora.org> writes:
>
> An option to keep backward compatibility and consistency would be
> to wrap the pattern/string passed in *'s, that way we can just use
> fnmatch and have all the examples Jiri brought up work the same.
> With that in place we can actually also drop the explicit ignoring
> of the uncore_ prefix since the globbing would take care of that.

Prepending with * would seem dangerous, could result in false
matches. But adding it at the end should be ok.

-Andi