From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752896Ab3LJKM2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:12:28 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:26058 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789Ab3LJKMX (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Dec 2013 05:12:23 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:12:02 +0100 From: Jiri Olsa To: Namhyung Kim Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Corey Ashford , Frederic Weisbecker , Ingo Molnar , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , David Ahern Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf report: Add --header/--header-only options Message-ID: <20131210101202.GB8108@krava.brq.redhat.com> References: <1386583370-1699-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <1386583370-1699-2-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> <87ppp5lg2t.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ppp5lg2t.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:12:10AM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 11:02:49 +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote: > > Currently the perf.data header is always displayed for stdio > > output, which is no always useful. > > > > Disabling header information by default and adding following > > options to control header output: > > --header - display header information (old default) > > --header-only - display header information only w/o further > > processing, forces stdio output > > > [SNIP] > > +--header > > + Show perf.data header. > > This explanation looks too terse. How about this? > > Show header information in the perf.data file. This includes > various information like hostname, os and perf version, cpu/mem > info, perf command line, event list and so on. Currently only > --stdio output supports this feature. sounds good, I will use it thanks, jirka