Em Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 01:45:48PM +0200, Andres Freund escreveu: > On 2014-07-29 15:52:46 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > > Yes, I knew it'd annoy some existing users like you :)
And me :-) > > But I hoped it'd be useful for new and (at least, some of) old users > > to see children/ cumulative overheads by default. If it lies under > > an option, it wouldn't have a chance to be used by normal users who > > simply run perf record and report most of time. > By that argument every new feature would need to be enabled by > default. Which normally isn't what happens. > > If you think it's entirely useless for you cases, you can set it to off > > using ~/.perfconfig file: > > [report] > > children = false > Already done that ;). :-) > The problem is still that I can't use --no-children on older systems, so > I can't write benchmarking scripts anymore that don't take depend on the > perf version... > I guess it's too late to argue effectively though :) yeah, changing the output people are used to in such a big way is not nice. Perhaps next time we should instead present a dialog box at 'perf report' start allowing people to opt-in, having a nice explanation about why one would want to switch the default while alowing people to say: [x] No, Thanks - Arnaldo -- 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/
