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

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Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:24:17 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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


* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl> wrote:

> 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.

No objection against also having a command line option, but I 
really like the Git way of doing things like:

   git remote update tip

where it's several layers of commands plus arguments, with no 
silly command switch names to remember.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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