[PATCH 2/7] perf: New helper function for pmu name

Paul Mundt lethal at linux-sh.org
Tue Oct 5 04:10:57 EDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 09:44:20PM +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> Introduce perf_pmu_name() helper function that returns the name of the
> pmu. This gives us a generic way to get the name of a pmu regardless of
> how an architecture identifies it internally, e.g. ARM uses an id
> whereas SH currently uses a string.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org>

This looks fine too. Later we can see about switching the SH case over to
CPU subtype IDs, but it doesn't matter for now.

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal at linux-sh.org>



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