Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:25:24 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Improvements to the tracing documentation |
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* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> At the kernel panel at the Linux Foundation Collaboration > Summit, I mentioned that the documentation for the tracing > subsystem could be improved; in particular, that very > often the needed documentation for how the various tracers > worked could only be found in the git commit logs, Kconfig > files, and of course, reading the source. > > Since criticisms should be followed up with some attempts > to improve the situation, here are some patches to improve > the tracing documentation. > > I'm not sure the documentation is 100% correct, but by > submitting it, hopefully that the tracer authors will get > flushed out of the woodwork and be inspired to improve > what has been submitted. :-)
Applied, thanks Ted!
Patch #1 was already present in the tracing tree - i've added both the event and the power tracer docs to Documentation/trace/.
Ingo
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