[PATCH v2] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list

From: Brian Norris
Date: Mon May 23 2016 - 16:38:27 EST


It took me browsing through the source code to determine that I was,
indeed, using the wrong delimiter in my command lines. So I might as
well document it for the next person.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: remove language about /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event, to avoid
implying it also takes a comma separated list

Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 82b42c958d1c..a2a662d4da83 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -3992,8 +3992,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.

trace_event=[event-list]
[FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order
- to facilitate early boot debugging.
- See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
+ to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a
+ comma separated list of trace events to enable. See
+ also Documentation/trace/events.txt

trace_options=[option-list]
[FTRACE] Enable or disable tracer options at boot.
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