Re: [PATCH] perf list: Hide deprecated events by default

[Jiri Olsa]

On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 08:59:13AM +0800, Jin, Yao wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/15/2019 5:14 PM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 10:53:57AM +0800, Jin Yao wrote:
> > > There are some deprecated events listed by perf list. But we can't remove
> > > them from perf list with ease because some old scripts may use them.
> > > 
> > > Deprecated events are old names of renamed events.  When an event gets
> > > renamed the old name is kept around for some time and marked with
> > > Deprecated. The newer Intel event lists in the tree already have these
> > > headers.
> > > 
> > > So we need to keep them in the event list, but provide a new option to
> > > show them. The new option is "--deprecated".
> > > 
> > > With this patch, the deprecated events are hidden by default but they can
> > > be displayed when option "--deprecated" is enabled.
> > 
> > not sure it's wise to hide them, because people will not read man page
> > to find --deprecated option, they will rather complain right away ;-)
> > 
> > how about to display them as another topic, like:
> > 
> > pipeline:
> > 	...
> > uncore:
> > 	...
> > deprecated:
> > 	...
> > 
> > jirka
> > 
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> I don't know if we add a new topic "deprecated" in perf list output, does
> the old script need to be modified as well?
> 
> Say the events are moved to the "deprecated" section, I just guess the
> script needs the modification.
> 
> That's just my personal guess. :)

i did not mean adding new topic all the way down,
just to display the deprecated events like that

jirka