On Mon, 23 May 2016 13:08:31 -0700 Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi Brian, > It took me browsing through the source code to determine that I was, > indeed, using the wrong delimiter in my command lines. So I might as > well document it for the next person. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 7 ++++++- > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > index 5349363b603c..594bf50b8f81 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt > @@ -3994,7 +3994,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. > > trace_event=[event-list] > [FTRACE] Set and start specified trace events in order > - to facilitate early boot debugging. > + to facilitate early boot debugging. The event-list is a > + comma separated list of trace events to enable, as if > + you were to append the event(s) to > + > + /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/set_event > + I agree that we should document that the list is comma separated, but the wording you have above, makes it sound like the set_event file also takes a comma separated list, which it does not. That file requires a space separated list. Can you reword that so that it removes the confusion. Thanks! -- Steve > See also Documentation/trace/events.txt > > trace_options=[option-list] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
