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SubjectRe: [PATCH] perf report: auto-detect branch stack sampling mode

* Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 16:56 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >> A third usability bug is that for some reason a branch sampling
> >> 'perf report' defaults to the stdio output on my testsystem -
> >> with --no-branch-stack it gives the regular tui.
> >>
> >>
> > Ah, I would not have noticed that since I still explicitly
> > build my perf without TUI support. That stuff mostly just
> > gets in the way.
>
> I tend to agree with Peter here.

I use the TUI most of the time (it allows me to navigate and
look at annotated output easily - something the --stdio one
cannot do), and I know at least two other kernel developers who
prefer the TUI, so it's a YMMV thing.

> There is no TUI support for branch as of now.

Why? What would be needed to add proper TUI support?

Thanks,

Ingo


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