Re: mailing list for trace users

From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	postmaster@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mailing list for trace users
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:46:40 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AB81E70.4060103@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090921191729.GE5018@nowhere>

Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 04:16:22PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> What are people's thoughts about creating a linux-trace-users mailing
>> list on vger.kernel.org?
>>
>> This would be a place for users of tracers and even perf. For asking
>> questions about how to use the debugfs/tracing directory or the perf
>> tool.
>>
>> This will not be a place for kernel development. Patches for the tracing
>> infrastructure should still go through LKML. This will be a place to ask
>> how-to questions, or any other kind of help questions.
>>
>> LKML can be quite intimidating, and it is not a place to ask help
>> questions anyway. I think adding a linux-trace-users mailing list would
>> be a good idea.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> -- Steve
> 
> 
> Why not. That could also gather informations from LKML threads by
> Cc'ing it while explaining how to use the tools in random discussions.
> 

+1

And then the mailing list needs to be renamed to linux-trace. And
we need to advertise it, in Documentation, Kconfig?