Re: [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation

Alan Cox
2007-05-10T13:39:45Z

O> Oh, I am not advocating censorship. I was merely pointing out that it
> seems silly to mention out-of-tree users because they come and go. Who
> knows whether LTTng or SystemTAP will be relevant five years from now?

And in the intervening five years (or more likely 7 or more for
systemtap) the documentation will be very useful.

> Besides, are we sure the document includes all potential users now? We
> wouldn't want to show favorism to any particular projects, now would we?

Absolutely not - and isn't it more useful to let users know about all of
the tools that this enables ?

>
> On Thu, 10 May 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> > And as I keep saying the tree is full of references to out of tree stuff.
> > The documentation directory alone currently contains over a thousand http
> > URLS as of 2.6.21-rc6-mm1.
>
> Many of the already out of date or expiring in the near future...

Have you done a statistically valid sampling or is this guessing ?

Alan