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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf report: Treat an argument as a symbol filter
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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.