Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 10:24:14 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
        David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
        He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Jeremie Galarneau <jgalar@efficios.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>,
        Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] tools lib traceevent: Add alias field to struct
 format_field
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On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 05:50:18PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> Introduce an 'alias' field to 'struct format_field' to be able
> to use alternative name for the field.
> 
> It is initialized with same string pointer as 'name' field.
> The free logic checks the 'alias' pointer being reset by user
> and frees it.
> 
> This will be handy when converting data into CTF, where each
> field within event needs to have a unique name (while this
> is not required for tracepoint). Converter can easily assign
> unique name into the format_field struct.
> 
> Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-qwyq8blnfkg6s5vlbrvn1en3@git.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

Acke-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


-- Steve
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