Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:24:17 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf report: Treat an argument as a symbol filter |
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* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.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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