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Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 12:25:26 -0700
From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf report: Add --show-time-info option
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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:
>> Hi Arnaldo,
>>
>> 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.

David