Add trace.packet.header definition scope

[ctf.git] / common-trace-format-proposal.txt

diff --git a/common-trace-format-proposal.txt b/common-trace-format-proposal.txt
index 8182ea991f7da92d49b2a35e193ec91213d62762..7a3b61c7a6d6009704a84a703a6c8e8683e91905 100644 (file)
--- a/common-trace-format-proposal.txt
+++ b/common-trace-format-proposal.txt
@@ -876,6 +876,7 @@ The target dynamic scope must be specified explicitly when referring to
 a field outside of the local static scope. The dynamic scope prefixes
 are thus:
 
+ - Trace Packet Header: <trace.packet.header. >,
  - Stream Packet Context: <stream.packet.context. >,
  - Event Header: <stream.event.header. >,
  - Stream Event Context: <stream.event.context. >,
@@ -905,6 +906,10 @@ Note that the trace endianness is usually extracted from the packet
 header magic number. The "endian" field is only needed when the magic
 number packet header field is not present.
 
+The stream "id" can be left out if there is only one stream in the
+trace. The event "id" field can be left out if there is only one event
+in a stream.
+
 trace {
   major = value;                               /* Trace format version */
   minor = value;