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Message-ID: <20191225001817.ca757l4xbyx2oyz3@frank-laptop>
Date:   Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:18:17 -0500
From:   "Frank A. Cancio Bello" <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com>
To:     Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        saiprakash.ranjan@...eaurora.org, nachukannan@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] docs: ftrace: Fix typos

On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 03:11:34PM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 12/24/19 9:57 AM, Frank A. Cancio Bello wrote:
> > Fix minor typos in the doc.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frank A. Cancio Bello <frank@...eralsoftwareinc.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> > index 5a037bedbf6a..6c9f40d5a2f9 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/trace/ftrace.rst
> > @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
> >  	This interface also allows for commands to be used. See the
> >  	"Filter commands" section for more details.
> >  
> > -	As a speed up, since processing strings can't be quite expensive
> > +	As a speed up, since processing strings can be quite expensive
> >  	and requires a check of all functions registered to tracing, instead
> >  	an index can be written into this file. A number (starting with "1")
> >  	written will instead select the same corresponding at the line position
> > @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ of ftrace. Here is a list of some of the key files:
> >  
> >  	By default, 128 comms are saved (see "saved_cmdlines" above). To
> >  	increase or decrease the amount of comms that are cached, echo
> > -	in a the number of comms to cache, into this file.
> > +	in the number of comms to cache, into this file.
> 
> That repeats the inwardness of the echo (in + into).  How about:
> 
> +	the number of comms to cache into this file.
>

Thank you. I re-sent the patchset with this improvement.

frank a.

> >  
> >    saved_tgids:
> >  
> > @@ -3325,7 +3325,7 @@ directories after it is created.
> >  
> >  As you can see, the new directory looks similar to the tracing directory
> >  itself. In fact, it is very similar, except that the buffer and
> > -events are agnostic from the main director, or from any other
> > +events are agnostic from the main directory, or from any other
> >  instances that are created.
> >  
> >  The files in the new directory work just like the files with the
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ~Randy
>