Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759427AbZDKUat (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758613AbZDKU3x (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:29:53 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:55358 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754609AbZDKU3v (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:29:51 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: Linux Kernel Developers List Subject: [PATCH, RFC 0/3] Improvements to the tracing documentation Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:51:16 -0400 Message-Id: <1239479479-2603-1-git-send-email-tytso@mit.edu> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.5.6.3 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: tytso@mit.edu X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on thunker.thunk.org); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 20 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. :-) - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/