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Date:   Fri, 16 Feb 2018 12:36:29 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:49:52 -0700
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:57:05 -0500
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > This document is out of date, and I rather have it updated before we
> > make it more "available" elsewhere.  
> 
> Imagine that, an out-of-date doc in the kernel :)
> 
> Seriously, though, I'd argue that (1) it's already highly available, and
> (2) it's useful now.  And (3) who knows when that update will happen?
> Unless we have reason to believe that a new version is waiting on the
> wings, I don't really see why we would want to delay this work.

Actually, some of these documents I was thinking of labeling as
"obsolete" or simply removing them. The ftrace-design one is about
how to port ftrace to other architectures, and I already had to correct
people that based their work on it.

Yeah, I really need to get some time to update them, but like everyone
else, that's just the 90th thing I have to do.

-- Steve