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[PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list

From Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list
Date 2016-05-23 22:20 +0200
Message-ID <rC4uu-23X-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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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@gmail.com>
---
 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
+
 			See also Documentation/trace/events.txt
 
 	trace_options=[option-list]
-- 
2.8.0.rc3.226.g39d4020

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[PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 22:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated  list Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-05-23 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated  list Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 22:40 +0200
  [PATCH v2] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a comma-separated list Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com> - 2016-05-23 22:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a  comma-separated list Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> - 2016-05-23 23:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2] doc: clarify that trace_events= takes a  comma-separated list Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-05-23 23:00 +0200

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