Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:38:50 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option |
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Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 12:25:26PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu: > On 12/2/13, 12:23 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > >Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:38:20PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > >>2013-12-02 (월), 09:33 -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: > >>>Em Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:53:19PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: > >>>>From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
> >>>>The --show-time-info option is for displaying elapsed sampling time
> >>>Isn't that too long? Can't we use just --time/-t?
> >>Hmm.. interesting. Your previous feedback was to use longer and clearer > >>option name. :)
> >>https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/18/198
> >Hey, longer and more descriptive names _when required_, in that case I > >thought that even being longer --show-task-events would be better, but > >here using --show-time-info the 'info' part looks superfluous, at least > >to me, hence my suggestion/question :-)
> I thought -t/--time is going to be used to specify a time interval? > Collect data for N-seconds, analyze some middle M-seconds.
Can you suggest a better name for the option being discussed?
Perhaps one of:
--show-event-time --event-time
?
As a policy I think we should go on adding just long options and only after there is a really strong case we should use a short option for really, really popular options.
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