Re: [RFC/PATCH v2] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line

From: Jiri Olsa
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 13:16:06 EST


On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 05:47:53PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2016 at 04:46:22PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> > Currently perf report only shows a help message "For a higher level
> > overview, try: perf report --sort comm,dso" unconditionally (even if
> > the sort keys were used). Add more help tips and show randomly.
> >
> > Load tips from ${prefix}/share/doc/perf-tip/tips.txt file.
>
> It would be better to compile them in in at build time from
> the documentation file.
>
> Often perf is not installed, and if people don't install they
> never see the tips.

+1 ;-)

jirka