From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751056AbeBQDjd (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:39:33 -0500 Received: from mga07.intel.com ([134.134.136.100]:21503 "EHLO mga07.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750942AbeBQDjb (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2018 22:39:31 -0500 X-Amp-Result: UNSCANNABLE X-Amp-File-Uploaded: False X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.46,522,1511856000"; d="scan'208";a="18372791" Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 11:30:48 +0800 From: "Du, Changbin" To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Jonathan Corbet , 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: <20180217033047.nubl47hevaag5m3r@intel.com> 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> <20180216054952.78718f09@lwn.net> <20180216123629.5ac2b373@gandalf.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180216123629.5ac2b373@gandalf.local.home> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20171027-42-ad8712 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:36:29PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 05:49:52 -0700 > Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > > 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 This document is out of date, and I rather have it updated before we 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 Imagine that, an out-of-date doc in the kernel :) 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. > > 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