On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 10:03:09PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > Hi Hagen, > > 2014-06-14 (토), 22:49 +0200, Hagen Paul Pfeifer: > > Probably too late, but IMHO the subcommand "download" is unhappy > > named. What is "downloaded"? traces? Python helper libs for > > perf-python support, I don't know it. What about "events-download", > > "events-database", ... > > Hmm.. maybe we can add support something like above later - "perf > download event" or "perf download blabla"
Sorry I think that's all overdesigning. Designing for unknown possibilities is usually a bad idea. In the unlikely case that something else was ever downloaded a new command can be added. > But I have a different idea - leaving perf download as a plumbing tool, > and add --download option into the perf list to call it internally. That would be syntactical vinegar. > Maybe it can automatically download event file if it didn't find the > file in the local cache. That wasn't done intentionally, so that people who don't want network accesses don't get them. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/