Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Mar 2012 18:20:08 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf report: auto-detect branch stack sampling mode |
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* Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> A third usability bug is that for some reason a branch sampling > >> 'perf report' defaults to the stdio output on my testsystem - > >> with --no-branch-stack it gives the regular tui. > >> > >> > > Ah, I would not have noticed that since I still explicitly > > build my perf without TUI support. That stuff mostly just > > gets in the way. > > I tend to agree with Peter here.
I use the TUI most of the time (it allows me to navigate and look at annotated output easily - something the --stdio one cannot do), and I know at least two other kernel developers who prefer the TUI, so it's a YMMV thing.
> There is no TUI support for branch as of now.
Why? What would be needed to add proper TUI support?
Thanks,
Ingo
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