Re: [PATCH] perf probe: Ignore vmlinux build-id when offline vmlinux and dry-run used

[Josh Hunt]

On 01/25/2017 08:37 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:41:28 -0500
> Josh Hunt <johunt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Commit e50243bb ("perf probe: Ignore vmlinux Build-id when offline vmlinux given")
> > added the ability to ignore vmlinux when an offline vmlinux is passed and no
> > l, d, or a flag is also passed. This extends that to ignore build-id when
> > -n/--dry-run is used. This way we can gather probe information for offline kernels
> > using the method Brendan Gregg mentions in this post:
> > http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2014-09-11/perf-kernel-line-tracing.html .
>
> Sorry, NAK.
> Could you use -D (--definition) for that usage? It directly gives you
> the definition on stdout, and also ignore the buildid.

Ahhh! I guess I totally missed the point of that flag. You're right. It 
works exactly the way I want :)

Thanks. Please ignore my patch.

Josh