From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Renninger Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing, perf: add more power related events Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:26:58 +0200 Message-ID: <201009180026.59482.trenn@suse.de> References: <201009171736.14170.trenn@suse.de> <20100917162412.GB3341@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100917162412.GB3341@elte.hu> Sender: linux-trace-users-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jean Pihet , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Len Brown , arjan@infradead.org, Kevin Hilman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@lesswatts.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Friday 17 September 2010 18:24:12 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > On Friday 17 September 2010 16:24:59 Ingo Molnar wrote: > [ You dont even have to document it, as good code is self-explanatory ;-) ] I recently posted a patch exporting some things through /sys/kernel/debug/... Greg complained that a file for Documentation/ABI/{testing,stable}/* is missing and I fully agree. If different userspace apps should make use of this (in above case nobody than my debug userspace tool will...) and this should be called something like an API, it should be documented and if something changes, it should first be marked deprecated, etc. Thomas