Re: [PATCH][RESEND] tracing: consolidate documents

Randy Dunlap
2009-04-09T16:46:41Z

Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
>> * Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Li Zefan wrote:
>>>> Move tracepoints.txt, ftrace.txt and mmiotrace.txt to the new
>>>> directory trace/
>>>>
>>> Should we also move kmemtrace.txt to trace/, or leave it in vm/?
>> Eduard, Pekka, any preferences?
>>
>> Are symbolic links in Documentation/ frowned upon? I think it would
>> be best to have the file in both places:
>>
>> We do want to direct people interested in Documentation/vm/ to
>> kmemtrace ... and we do want to let people who are interested in
>> Documentation/trace/ that there's kmemtrace.
>>
>> Tracing and instrumentation is generally a multi-subsystem thing.
>
> I'm not sure a symbolic link is necessary. Just put it under trace/.

Thanks. I like that too.

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~Randy