Re: [PATCH V3 1/6] perf/core: Adding PMU driver specific configuration

[Peter Zijlstra]

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.