Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751281AbZIVAr7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:47:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750933AbZIVAr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:47:57 -0400 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:53577 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750783AbZIVAr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:47:57 -0400 Message-ID: <4AB81E70.4060103@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:46:40 +0800 From: Li Zefan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090513 Fedora/3.0-2.3.beta2.fc11 Thunderbird/3.0b2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Frederic Weisbecker CC: Steven Rostedt , LKML , Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , Peter Zijlstra , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Thomas Gleixner , Masami Hiramatsu , postmaster@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mailing list for trace users References: <1253132182.20020.242.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20090921191729.GE5018@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20090921191729.GE5018@nowhere> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1279 Lines: 36 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: >> What are people's thoughts about creating a linux-trace-users mailing >> list on vger.kernel.org? >> >> This would be a place for users of tracers and even perf. For asking >> questions about how to use the debugfs/tracing directory or the perf >> tool. >> >> This will not be a place for kernel development. Patches for the tracing >> infrastructure should still go through LKML. This will be a place to ask >> how-to questions, or any other kind of help questions. >> >> LKML can be quite intimidating, and it is not a place to ask help >> questions anyway. I think adding a linux-trace-users mailing list would >> be a good idea. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> -- Steve > > > Why not. That could also gather informations from LKML threads by > Cc'ing it while explaining how to use the tools in random discussions. > +1 And then the mailing list needs to be renamed to linux-trace. And we need to advertise it, in Documentation, Kconfig? -- 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/