Re: [pcp] perfevent metric name changes

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> [...]
> allow pmlogrewrite to allow the invalid names in the configuration file:
> [...]
> -[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]* { yylval.str = dupstr(yytext, 0); return
> TOK_GNAME; }
> +[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.=-]*       { yylval.str = dupstr(yytext, 0); return
> TOK_GNAME; }
> 
>   \#.*                   { }
> 

Ah yes, that looks like a worthwhile change - we definitely want to
allow those kinds of metric names too so they can be fixed.

> This change and my script are in the same git branch. I just added the 2
> characters I have seen on our hardware.   Is that acceptable? If so,
> I'll finish up the packaging and documentation.

Yep, sounds good to me - thanks Martins.

cheers.

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Nathan