From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To:     Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org>,
        Linux Trace Devel <linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path
In-Reply-To: <20230125213251.2013791-1-zwisler@google.com>
References: <20230125213251.2013791-1-zwisler@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:28:38 -0700
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Ross Zwisler <zwisler@chromium.org> writes:

> The canonical location for the tracefs filesystem is at /sys/kernel/tracing.
>
> But, from Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst:
>
>   Before 4.1, all ftrace tracing control files were within the debugfs
>   file system, which is typically located at /sys/kernel/debug/tracing.
>   For backward compatibility, when mounting the debugfs file system,
>   the tracefs file system will be automatically mounted at:
>
>   /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
>
> Many parts of Documentation still reference this older debugfs path, so
> let's update them to avoid confusion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>

So this seems like a good cleanup to me.  Unless somebody objects, I'll
apply it to the docs tree in the near future.

Thanks,

jon