Merge branch 'collectd-4.4'

[collectd.git] / src / collectd-perl.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd-perl.pod b/src/collectd-perl.pod
index 8cdf08b..b7ae9ca 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd-perl.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-perl.pod
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ layout looks like this:
     time   => time (),
     host   => $hostname_g,
     plugin => 'myplugin',
+    type   => 'myplugin',
     plugin_instance => '',
     type_instance   => ''
   }
@@ -285,13 +286,19 @@ data type.
 Removes a callback or data-set from collectd's internal list of
 functionsE<nbsp>/ datasets.
 
-=item B<plugin_dispatch_values> (I<type>, I<value-list>)
+=item B<plugin_dispatch_values> (I<value-list>)
 
-Submits a I<value-list> of type I<type> to the daemon. If the data-set I<type>
+Submits a I<value-list> to the daemon. If the data-set identified by
+I<value-list>->{I<type>}
 is found (and the number of values matches the number of data-sources) then the
 type, data-set and value-list is passed to all write-callbacks that are
 registered with the daemon.
 
+B<Note>: Prior to version 4.4 of collectd, the data-set type used to be passed
+as the first argument to B<plugin_register>. This syntax is still supported
+for backwards compatibility but has been deprecated and will be removed in
+some future version of collectd.
+
 =item B<plugin_flush> ([B<timeout> => I<timeout>,] [B<plugins> => I<...>])
 
 Flush one or more plugins. I<timeout> is passed on to the registered