Improve profiling API, add documentation

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:50:56AM -0700, Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-15 at 07:46, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +This data can be uploaded to a host using <emphasis>TFTP</emphasis>.
> > > +A side effect of the upload of the data is that the histogram
> > > +is reset.
> > 
> > Isn't the terminology all the wrong way around for the TFTP
> > transfers. The target hardware is running a TFTP server. The host PC
> > runs a client. So this is a download, from a server in the target. 
> > 
> 
> Which is an upload from the target's perspective, which is what
> is being documented.

Here is were we differ. When talking about networks i always take the
perspective of the active entity, not the passive. In this case, the
host is active, the target is passive. Hence it is an download.

> Fair enough.  I'll see if I can make it clearer in general.

Great. Thanks

        Andrew