From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Trace Kernel <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace/selftests: Add softlink to latest log directory
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 14:07:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230911140759.725af6b4@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230911092105.95425e2d773f79c9b3b4b94f@kernel.org>
On Mon, 11 Sep 2023 09:21:05 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 18:17:21 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> >
> > When I'm debugging something with the ftrace selftests and need to look at
> > the logs, it becomes tedious that I need to do the following:
> >
> > ls -ltr logs
> > [ copy the last directory ]
> > ls logs/<paste-last-dir>
> >
> > to see where the logs are.
> >
> > Instead, do the common practice of having a "latest" softlink to the last
> > run selftest. This way after running the selftest I only need to do:
> >
> > ls logs/latest/
> >
> > and it will always give me the directory of the last run selftest logs!
> >
>
> Nice! I like this and this looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
>
> Thank you!
>
Should this go via Shuah's tree?
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-11 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-08 22:17 [PATCH] ftrace/selftests: Add softlink to latest log directory Steven Rostedt
2023-09-11 0:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-09-11 18:07 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2023-09-11 20:41 ` Shuah Khan
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