From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754079AbbE1Mj3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 08:39:29 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:40773 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752166AbbE1MjU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 May 2015 08:39:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 14:39:14 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Cc: mingo@redhat.com, ak@linux.intel.com, Michael Ellerman , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Paul Mackerras , namhyung@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/10] perf, tools: Add a --no-desc flag to perf list Message-ID: <20150528123914.GJ12392@krava.redhat.com> References: <1432761809-4344-1-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1432761809-4344-10-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1432761809-4344-10-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: > From: Andi Kleen > > Add a --no-desc flag to perf list to not print the event descriptions > that were earlier added for JSON events. This may be useful to > get a less crowded listing. > > It's still default to print descriptions as that is the more useful > default for most users. I might not be typical user, but the first thing I tried to explore was 'perf list -v' ;-) would it be better to have just the list with event names for: $ perf list and with descriptions for: $ perf list -v not sure we already discussed this.. jirka