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Message-ID: <20120313152417.GA12193@elte.hu>
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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