Re: [PATCH 4/4] perf report: Treat an argument as a symbol filter

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> wrote:

> 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.

No objection against also having a command line option, but I 
really like the Git way of doing things like:

   git remote update tip

where it's several layers of commands plus arguments, with no 
silly command switch names to remember.

Thanks,

	Ingo