tools lib subcmd: Suppport cascading options

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Sometimes subcommand have common options and it can only handled in the
upper level command unless it duplicates the options.

This patch adds a parent field and fallback to the parent if the given
argument was not found in the current options.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161024030003.28534-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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Namhyung Kim 2016-10-24 12:00:02 +09:00 • committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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tools/lib/subcmd/parse-options.c

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