Re: [PATCH RESEND] perf record: Fix documentation for a disused option '-l'

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 08:07:01 EST


Em Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 12:10:12AM +0900, Taeung Song escreveu:
> perf-record had a '-l' option that mean "scale counter values"
> very long time ago, but it currently belong to perf-stat as '-c'.
> So remove it. I found this problem in the below case.

Applied,

- Arnaldo

> $ perf record -e cycles -l sleep 3
> Error: unknown switch `l
>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> index 68a1ffb..5a626ef 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
> @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ perf-record - Run a command and record its profile into perf.data
> SYNOPSIS
> --------
> [verse]
> -'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] <command>
> -'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-l] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]
> +'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] <command>
> +'perf record' [-e <EVENT> | --event=EVENT] [-a] -- <command> [<options>]
>
> DESCRIPTION
> -----------
> --
> 2.7.4