Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Always give options even it not compiled

["Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@huawei.com>]

On 2015/11/26 16:05, Wangnan (F) wrote:
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> On 2015/11/20 18:54, 平松雅巳 / HIRAMATU，MASAMI wrote:
>>> From: Wang Nan [mailto:wangnan0@huawei.com]
>>>
>>> This patch keeps options of perf builtins same in all condition. If the
>>> option is disabled because of compiling options, users should be
>>> notified.
>>>
>>> This patch does it by introducing a series of new option macros, flags
>>> and field in struct options. For those options disabled by compiling,
>>> OPT_NOTBUILT_NOARG, OPT_NOTBUILT_OPTARG and OPT_NOTBUILT can be used
>>> to record the help messages and the reason why not built them.
>>>
>>> Options in 'perf record' and 'perf probe' are fixed by those new 
>>> macros.
>> Hmm, OK, I agree the reason why this is useful. Could you reconsider
>> the implementation, because just cloning the code is ugly and not
>> maintainable?
>>
>> It will be better if we can replace OPT_BOOLEAN with;
>>
>>     OPT_DEPENDS(HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT, BOOLEAN, '\0', "no-inlines", 
>> &probe_conf.no_inlines, ...
>>
>> This may be done by following macros ;
>>
>> ----
>> #define OPTMSG_HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT "NO_DWARF"
>> #ifdef HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT
>> #define OPTVAL_HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT 1
>> #else
>> #define OPTVAL_HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT 0
>> #endif
>>
>> #define __OPT_DEPENDS(val, msg, opt, ...)    \
>>     {.type = OPTION_NEXT_DEPENDS, .value = (void *)val, .data = msg, 
>> }, opt(__VA_ARGS__)
>>
>> #define _OPT_DEPENDS(val, msg, opt, ...)    \
>>     __OPT_DEPENDS(val, msg, opt, __VA_ARGS__)
>>
>> #define OPT_DEPENDS(flag, opt, ...)    \
>>     _OPT_DEPENDS(OPTVAL_ ## flag, OPTMSG_ ## flag, OPT_ ## opt, 
>> __VA_ARGS__)
>> ----
>>
>> And if the parser find OPTION_NEXT_DEPENDS and .value != NULL, it 
>> skips next entry.
>>
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> That would be good, but don't forget we have a options__order() which
> reorder the options array. To archive our goal I think we must preprocess
> the options array to 'merge' information in the OPTION_NEXT_DEPENDS into
> the real option it decorates.
>

Doing such merging in parse_options_subcommand() is natually but require 
removing all
'const' decorators from struct options. Too much code changing for such 
a small
feature...

Will think another solution...

> Thank you.
>
>> Thank you,
>>
>