Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Oct 2019 11:14:01 +0200 | From | Jiri Olsa <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf list: Hide deprecated events by default |
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On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:53:57AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote: > There are some deprecated events listed by perf list. But we can't remove > them from perf list with ease because some old scripts may use them. > > Deprecated events are old names of renamed events. When an event gets > renamed the old name is kept around for some time and marked with > Deprecated. The newer Intel event lists in the tree already have these > headers. > > So we need to keep them in the event list, but provide a new option to > show them. The new option is "--deprecated". > > With this patch, the deprecated events are hidden by default but they can > be displayed when option "--deprecated" is enabled.
not sure it's wise to hide them, because people will not read man page to find --deprecated option, they will rather complain right away ;-)
how about to display them as another topic, like:
pipeline: ... uncore: ... deprecated: ...
jirka
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