Re: [PATCH 6/9] perf bench: futex: Replace --silent option with global --format

[Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>]

On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 13:38 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 11:14:24AM -0700, Davidlohr Bueso escreveu:
> > Using the already existing '--format simple' option in perf-bench
> > is/should be equivalent to disabling any verbose output. Replace
> > it and free up the -s option specific to the futex benchmark.
> 
> Isn't this much longer?

It is, and to be honest I detest the whole --format option. But its
already there and I really want to make use of global parameters in
order to recycle options that are benchmark-specific. What I'd really
like is to replace it with --silent and just have perf spit out the raw
data (for scripting). But that would be too disruptive to users, imho.
Does it matter? I dunno.

> I haven't seen any patch in this series wanting to use -s.
> 
> Ingo, are you Ok with this?
> 
> I.e. I'm just trying to be careful when changing existing cmd line args,
> perhaps someone is used to this, who knows, and at least for me,
> --silent is way, way more clear than '--format simple', that says
> nothing to me.

If we can get away with it then lets.

Thanks,
Davidlohr