Subject: Re: [PATCH]perf/core: remove newline char in perf_event_sysfs_show

From: Peter Zijlstra <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 13:32:14 +0200

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 02:59:26PM +0530, Madhavan Srinivasan wrote:
> When a event also carries a event.unit file, having newline char
> will make perf userspace tool to print the event name in
> the next line when dumping counter data.

And changing the kernel will break the API (it includes a '\n' now) so
fix the tool.