From: "Du, Changbin" <changbin.du@intel.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
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
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:30:48 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180217033047.nubl47hevaag5m3r@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180216123629.5ac2b373@gandalf.local.home>
On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:49:52 -0700
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 15 Feb 2018 22:57:05 -0500
> > Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> 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 This document is out of date, and I rather have it updated before we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 Imagine that, an out-of-date doc in the kernel :)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.
>
> Actually, some of these documents I was thinking of labeling as
> "obsolete" or simply removing them. The ftrace-design one is about
> how to port ftrace to other architectures, and I already had to correct
> people that based their work on it.
>
> Yeah, I really need to get some time to update them, but like everyone
> else, that's just the 90th thing I have to do.
>
> -- Steve
Reading this doc, I think most of information are still useful for undertading the
implemeation. So how abount just put a caution at the begining of doc as below
defore get updated?
http://docservice.askxiong.com/linux-kernel/trace/ftrace-design.html
Anyway, I just converted them all. I will send them out. Please comemnt if some
of them should be removed.
--
Thanks,
Changbin Du
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-17 3:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-16 3:12 [RFC PATCH 0/3] Include linux trace docs to Sphinx TOC tree changbin.du
2018-02-16 3:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] Documentation: add tracing " changbin.du
2018-02-16 3:12 ` [PATCH 2/3] Documentation: convert trace/ftrace-design.txt to rst format changbin.du
2018-02-16 3:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-16 9:07 ` Du, Changbin
2018-02-16 17:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-16 12:49 ` Jonathan Corbet
2018-02-16 17:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2018-02-17 3:30 ` Du, Changbin [this message]
2018-02-16 3:12 ` [PATCH 3/3] Documentation: add ftrace-uses.rst to doc tree changbin.du
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