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

[Pekka Enberg]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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/.
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