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From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Allow '--inherit' as the negation of '--no-inherit'
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 09:20:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <528B8FE8.4080301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528B1D7C.5010400@intel.com>

On 11/19/13, 1:12 AM, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> On 18/11/13 23:15, David Ahern wrote:
>> Why not cleanup the options for the commands and move all of the no-xxxx to
>> just xxxx? Anyone using no-xxxx would still just work by the existing code.
>
> Interesting idea but the short and long options are a combination, and short
> options don't work the same way e.g. -i and --no-inherit go together.
>

If inherit is on by default and -i / --inherit is the option then -i is 
a no-op and --no-inherit disables it. That's the same effect has having 
inherit on by default and an option to disable it called --no-inherit.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-19 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-18  9:55 [PATCH 0/4] perf record: Make per-cpu mmaps the default Adrian Hunter
2013-11-18  9:55 ` [PATCH 1/4] " Adrian Hunter
2013-11-18  9:55 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Allow '--inherit' as the negation of '--no-inherit' Adrian Hunter
2013-11-18 21:15   ` David Ahern
2013-11-19  8:12     ` Adrian Hunter
2013-11-19 16:20       ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-11-20  7:16         ` Adrian Hunter
2013-11-30 12:50   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-18  9:55 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf tools: Add option macro OPT_BOOLEAN_SET Adrian Hunter
2013-11-30 12:50   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-11-18  9:55 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf record: Default -t option to no inheritance Adrian Hunter
2013-11-30 12:51   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter

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