Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>]

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.

- Arnaldo