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SubjectRe: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Improvements to the tracing documentation

* 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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