Hi Harald and Vince, On Tue, 13 May 2014 10:24:06 -0400 (EDT), Vince Weaver wrote: > On Sat, 10 May 2014, Harald Servat wrote: > >> which is the appropriate way to reference perf in a publication? > > That's a good question. > > The original authors are T. Gleixner and I. Molnar, but they've never > published a real document about it. You could try citing the > tools/perf/design.txt document that comes with the Linux kernel, > or also the git commit 0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e > from Thu Dec 4 2008 that introduced perf_event to the world. > > I'm not sure if there is an official way to cite a git commit.
Maybe via web page of the commit? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0793a61d4df8daeac6492dbf8d2f3e5713caae5e Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-perf-users" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html