Re: [GIT PULL 00/38] perf/core improvements and fixes

[Ingo Molnar]

* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Em Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:41:01PM +0100, Ingo Molnar escreveu:
> > * Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Andi Kleen (2):
> > >       perf stat: Fix --delay option in man page
> > >       perf record: Add --initial-delay option
> 
> > Hm, so we now have two options that do something similar, one named
> > --delay, the other --initial-delay? That looks rather inconsistent.
> 
> > Furthermore, it looks silly to rename things --initial-delay just to
> > preserve a rarely used option, --no-delay. Instead the better option
> > would be to rename --no-delay to --no-buffering, and use --delay and
> > use it consistently within the tools.
> 
> Ok, agreed, I'll do that, adding a patch that renames the old option,
> then reworking Andi's patches to use --delay consistently.

Ok, thanks - I'll pull the existing lineup meanwhile, it's not a 
showstopper.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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