On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 13:37 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 12:59:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 07:25 +0000, tip-bot for Stephane Eranian wrote: > > > Looks to me like the :r modifier is not supported anymore, so remove it from > > > the list of events. > > > > acme, why is that anyway? -R is a fun way to save some typing, but not > > supporting :r anymore takes away the option of not getting > > PERF_SAMPLE_RAW output for every event. > > Because it was very non obvious for people to select this -R or :r > every time they wanted to use trace events for tracing. I think > there was complaints about that. Moreover nobody seemed to use > trace events for non-tracing (perf report, top, annotate, ...) > so we decided to always have RAW records so that it works for > every cases...unless we lose events because of that. > > We can still bring an option to force disabling of raw records. That just doesn't compute, they still have to use -R, so what's the harm in also having :r? Also taking away options just because it confuses people sounds like gnome, lets just not go there. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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