The -q/--quiet option is to suppress any message.  Sometimes users just
want to run the command and it can be used for that case.

Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
---
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt | 4 ++++
 tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c              | 7 +++++--
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt 
b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
index 6e6a8b22c859..361836114268 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --verbose=::
         Verbosity level.
 
+-q::
+--quiet::
+       Do not show any message.
+
 -p::
 --pid=::
        Trace on existing process id (comma separated list).
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
index 6087295f8827..2d8e8924cfe6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-ftrace.c
@@ -321,8 +321,8 @@ int cmd_ftrace(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix __maybe_unused)
                   "tracer to use: function_graph(default) or function"),
        OPT_STRING('p', "pid", &ftrace.target.pid, "pid",
                   "trace on existing process id"),
-       OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
-                "be more verbose"),
+       OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose, "be more verbose"),
+       OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quiet", &quiet, "do not show any message"),
        OPT_BOOLEAN('a', "all-cpus", &ftrace.target.system_wide,
                    "system-wide collection from all CPUs"),
        OPT_STRING('C', "cpu", &ftrace.target.cpu_list, "cpu",
@@ -339,6 +339,9 @@ int cmd_ftrace(int argc, const char **argv, const char 
*prefix __maybe_unused)
        if (!argc && target__none(&ftrace.target))
                usage_with_options(ftrace_usage, ftrace_options);
 
+       if (quiet)
+               perf_quiet_option();
+
        ret = target__validate(&ftrace.target);
        if (ret) {
                char errbuf[512];
-- 
2.11.0

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