Because there's too many options and I cannot read, I frequently get confused between -c and -P, and try to do things like:
perf record -P 50000 -- foo Which does not work; try and make the option description slightly longer and hopefully less confusing. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org> --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index d3731cc..4d6cdeb 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -1027,10 +1027,9 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "don't print any message"), OPT_BOOLEAN('s', "stat", &record.opts.inherit_stat, "per thread counts"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &record.opts.sample_address, - "Sample addresses"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('T', "timestamp", &record.opts.sample_time, "Sample timestamps"), - OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "period", &record.opts.period, "Sample period"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('d', "data", &record.opts.sample_address, "Record the sample addresses"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('T', "timestamp", &record.opts.sample_time, "Record the sample timestamps"), + OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "period", &record.opts.period, "Record the sample period"), OPT_BOOLEAN('n', "no-samples", &record.opts.no_samples, "don't sample"), OPT_BOOLEAN('N', "no-buildid-cache", &record.no_buildid_cache, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/