On 10/22/12 1:12 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
It seems that commit cc5848213329 ("perf help: Remove use of die and handle errors") caused the problem - it changed the initial value of 'help_format' from HELP_FORMAT_MAN to HELP_FORMAT_NONE.The following patch works well for me: diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c index 411ee5664e98..178b88ae3d2f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-help.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-help.c @@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ static int show_html_page(const char *perf_cmd) int cmd_help(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) { bool show_all = false; - enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_NONE; + enum help_format help_format = HELP_FORMAT_MAN; struct option builtin_help_options[] = { OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all", &show_all, "print all available commands"), OPT_SET_UINT('m', "man", &help_format, "show man page", HELP_FORMAT_MAN),
D'oh. Thanks for debugging, Namhyung. Acked-by/Tested-by: David Ahern <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

