[PATCH 09/10] perf, tools: Add a --no-desc flag to perf list

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Thu May 28 22:39:14 AEST 2015


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 02:23:28PM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak at linux.intel.com>
> 
> 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


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