From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754940Ab0IQW1Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:27:16 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:48157 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754600Ab0IQW1O (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 18:27:14 -0400 From: Thomas Renninger To: Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing, perf: add more power related events Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:26:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.34.4-0.1.99.9.f8e4270-desktop; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Jean Pihet , Arjan van de Ven , Peter Zijlstra , Len Brown , arjan@infradead.org, Kevin Hilman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@lesswatts.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org References: <201009171736.14170.trenn@suse.de> <20100917162412.GB3341@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20100917162412.GB3341@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201009180026.59482.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Friday 17 September 2010 18:24:12 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Thomas Renninger wrote: > > > On Friday 17 September 2010 16:24:59 Ingo Molnar wrote: > [ You dont even have to document it, as good code is self-explanatory ;-) ] I recently posted a patch exporting some things through /sys/kernel/debug/... Greg complained that a file for Documentation/ABI/{testing,stable}/* is missing and I fully agree. If different userspace apps should make use of this (in above case nobody than my debug userspace tool will...) and this should be called something like an API, it should be documented and if something changes, it should first be marked deprecated, etc. Thomas