From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759469AbcAKKz4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:55:56 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:36162 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757592AbcAKKzz (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Jan 2016 05:55:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 11:55:51 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Namhyung Kim Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Jiri Olsa , LKML , David Ahern , Stephane Eranian , Andi Kleen , Masami Hiramatsu , Wang Nan Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line Message-ID: <20160111105550.GA300@gmail.com> References: <1452166913-27046-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <20160108075705.GA10894@gmail.com> <20160109095001.GB7818@danjae.kornet> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160109095001.GB7818@danjae.kornet> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Namhyung Kim wrote: > > On top of this, what do you think about only doing a single tip per day, the 'tip > > of the day'? That would have two effects: > > > > - people who know all this already see this less > > > > - people who don't know all this will perhaps be more attentive, because a tip > > for every report is more likely to get ignored. > > > > This could be done via a flag in ~/.perf/ or so. > > Not sure. Some people wanted to see more tips more frequently. Fair enough! I now had some experience with the tips, and they are not intrusive. > I think the 'tip of the day' might be good for regular users, but many people > just use perf when they need it and forget about it soon. For those people it'd > be better to suggest useful tips more often. Ok. Thanks, Ingo