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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> 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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