From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S967561AbeBPMt6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:49:58 -0500 Received: from ms.lwn.net ([45.79.88.28]:43706 "EHLO ms.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S967503AbeBPMt4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2018 07:49:56 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:49:52 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Steven Rostedt Cc: changbin.du@intel.com, mingo@kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: convert trace/ftrace-design.txt to rst format Message-ID: <20180216054952.78718f09@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: <20180215225705.58984492@vmware.local.home> References: <1518750739-12514-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com> <1518750739-12514-3-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com> <20180215225705.58984492@vmware.local.home> Organization: LWN.net X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.15.1-dirty (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:57:05 -0500 Steven Rostedt wrote: > This document is out of date, and I rather have it updated before we > make it more "available" elsewhere. Imagine that, an out-of-date doc in the kernel :) Seriously, though, I'd argue that (1) it's already highly available, and (2) it's useful now. And (3) who knows when that update will happen? Unless we have reason to believe that a new version is waiting on the wings, I don't really see why we would want to delay this work. Thanks, jon