linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Display active jiffie timers in /proc/timer

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Message-ID: <20081126173931.GA1636@kroah.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:39:31 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Joe Korty <joe.korty@...r.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Display active jiffie timers in /proc/timer_list, v2

On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:34:10PM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:07:15PM -0500, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:48:45AM -0500, Joe Korty wrote:
> > > Add an 'active jiffie timers' subdisplay to /proc/timer_list, v2.
> > 
> > Can you add the documentation for this new field to Documentation/ABI/
> > as you are changing/adding a public API.
> 
> 
> OK.
> 
> Right now there is no ABI documention for anything in
> /proc/timer_list.

Yeah, you touched it last, so you get to document it all, sorry, it's
not fair, but it's how we are slowly fixing these issues :)

> Do you prefer one file for everything in /proc/timer_list, or a
> seperate file for each of the subsections?

Whatever you feel would be best is fine.

> I was also thinking the doc(s) should go into the /testing
> subsection, as the displayed revision number is < 1.0.

Due to how long this has been in the kernel, I think it's fair to say
it's part of the stable section now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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