From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932289AbbFKIqf (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:46:35 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([198.137.202.9]:45811 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753015AbbFKIqX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Jun 2015 04:46:23 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:46:19 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, record: Ammend option summaries Message-ID: <20150611084619.GR19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <20150610144850.GP19282@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20150610172743.GN3136@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150610172743.GN3136@kernel.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2012-12-30) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 02:27:43PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 04:48:50PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra escreveu: > > > > Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get > > confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like: > > > > perf record -P 50000 -- foo > > > > Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer > > and hopefully less confusing. > > Thanks, I'll check and update tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt, > i.e. the man page. Thanks, I always forget that stuff even exists. I further get totally annoyed every time I do: perf record --help and it vomits on me. Could we please make -h and --help do the exact same thing?