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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 16:25:10 +0200
From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 20/41] perf tools: Let a user specify a PMU event without
 any config terms
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 01:02:44PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> This enables a PMU event to be specified in the form:
> 
> 	pmu//
> 
> which is effectively the same as:
> 
> 	pmu/config=0/
> 
> This patch is a precursor to defining
> default config for a PMU.

I understand the need for default config, but could you please elaborate
why do we want to parse 'pmu//' as an event string string?

thanks,
jirka