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Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line
Date 2016-01-11 12:00 +0100
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* Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> > On top of this, what do you think about only doing a single tip per day, the 'tip 
> > of the day'? That would have two effects:
> > 
> >  - people who know all this already see this less
> > 
> >  - people who don't know all this will perhaps be more attentive, because a tip 
> >    for every report is more likely to get ignored.
> > 
> > This could be done via a flag in ~/.perf/ or so.
> 
> Not sure.  Some people wanted to see more tips more frequently.

Fair enough!

I now had some experience with the tips, and they are not intrusive.

> I think the 'tip of the day' might be good for regular users, but many people 
> just use perf when they need it and forget about it soon.  For those people it'd 
> be better to suggest useful tips more often.

Ok.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help line Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-07 12:50 +0100
  Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-08 09:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-08 09:10 +0100
      Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-09 11:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org> - 2016-01-08 14:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-09 11:00 +0100
    Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> - 2016-01-09 11:00 +0100
      Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] perf report: Show random usage tip on the help  line Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-01-11 12:00 +0100
  [tip:perf/core] perf report:   Show random usage tip on the help line tip-bot for Namhyung Kim <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-01-09 17:50 +0100

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