From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756009AbcEWUJ7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 16:09:59 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f67.google.com ([209.85.220.67]:34363 "EHLO mail-pa0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932461AbcEWUIq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 May 2016 16:08:46 -0400 From: Brian Norris To: Steven Rostedt Cc: , , Brian Norris , Jonathan Corbet , Li Zefan Subject: [PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 13:08:31 -0700 Message-Id: <1464034111-25340-1-git-send-email-computersforpeace@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 5349363b603c..594bf50b8f81 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3994,7 +3994,12 @@ 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. + to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a + comma separated list of trace events to enable, as if + you were to append the event(s) to + + /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event + See also Documentation/trace/events.txt trace_options=[option-list] -- 2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020