On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 07:46:44AM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> >  v2:
> >  ---
> >  In v1, the deprecated events are hidden by default but they can be
> >  displayed when option "--deprecated" is enabled. In v2, we don't use
> >  the new option "--deprecated". Instead, we just display the deprecated
> >  events under the title "--- Following are deprecated events ---".
> 
> It's redundant with what the event description already says.
> If we always want to show it we don't need to do anything.
> 
> I really would much prefer to hide it. What's the point of showing
> something that people are not supposed to use?
> 
> The only reason for keeping the deprecated events is to not
> break old scripts, but those don't care about perf list output.

I thought this might be a problem for users,
but don't have anything to back this up ;-)

if that's the case we can go with the original patch

jirka

> 
> So I think the only sane option is to hide it by default.
> 
> -Andi

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