[PATCH] tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option

[PATCH] tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option

[Li Zefan]

Make it clear that event-list is a comma separated list of events.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/trace/events.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index 02ac6ed..778ddf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ In order to facilitate early boot debugging, use boot option:
 
 	trace_event=[event-list]
 
-The format of this boot option is the same as described in section 2.1.
+event-list is a comma separated list of events. See section 2.1 for event
+format.
 
 3. Defining an event-enabled tracepoint
 =======================================
-- 
1.6.3

Re: [PATCH] tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option

[Steven Rostedt]

Going through old email, I came across this. Looks like it was never
applied, I'll pull it in. I think I was on vacation when this was
received, and got lost it the masses.

Sorry for the --very-- late response.

-- Steve


On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 14:27 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> Make it clear that event-list is a comma separated list of events.
> 
> Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/trace/events.txt |    3 ++-
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
> index 02ac6ed..778ddf3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
> @@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ In order to facilitate early boot debugging, use boot option:
>  
>  	trace_event=[event-list]
>  
> -The format of this boot option is the same as described in section 2.1.
> +event-list is a comma separated list of events. See section 2.1 for event
> +format.
>  
>  3. Defining an event-enabled tracepoint
>  =======================================

[tip:tracing/core] tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option

[tip-bot for Li Zefan]

Commit-ID:  03d646e62b06e9364e2dbb939d67934c6c9826cd
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/03d646e62b06e9364e2dbb939d67934c6c9826cd
Author:     Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:27:24 +0800
Committer:  Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
CommitDate: Tue, 4 May 2010 16:25:51 -0400

tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_event boot option

Make it clear that event-list is a comma separated list of events.

Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
LKML-Reference: <4B2F154C.2060503@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/events.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/events.txt b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
index 02ac6ed..778ddf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/events.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/events.txt
@@ -90,7 +90,8 @@ In order to facilitate early boot debugging, use boot option:
 
 	trace_event=[event-list]
 
-The format of this boot option is the same as described in section 2.1.
+event-list is a comma separated list of events. See section 2.1 for event
+format.
 
 3. Defining an event-enabled tracepoint
 =======================================