linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf report: Treat an argument as a symbol filter

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Message-ID: <1331646021.18960.71.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:40:21 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf report: Treat an argument as a symbol filter

On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 07:21 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> To play the devil's advocate it uses up valuable perf report 
> command line real estate and we probably cannot change this 
> workflow in the future, once people get used to it. 

I would indeed suggest to make it a proper argument and add argument
parsing to report like we have for all the other commands.

Say something like: perf report --symbol-filter="foobar"
and maybe an appropriate short version.
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