Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756878AbdIHTKA (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:10:00 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:47520 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756581AbdIHTJ6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:09:58 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org AB0FE21D29 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=goodmis.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=rostedt@goodmis.org Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 15:09:55 -0400 From: Steven Rostedt To: Tom Zanussi Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mhiramat@kernel.org, namhyung@kernel.org, vedang.patel@intel.com, bigeasy@linutronix.de, joel.opensrc@gmail.com, joelaf@google.com, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, baohong.liu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 33/40] tracing: Add hist trigger support for variable reference aliases Message-ID: <20170908150955.2ea9351e@gandalf.local.home> In-Reply-To: <35c0e47907c9acaa847c83ad0ec3af0092cde250.1504642143.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> References: <35c0e47907c9acaa847c83ad0ec3af0092cde250.1504642143.git.tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.0 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 356 Lines: 14 On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:57:45 -0500 Tom Zanussi wrote: > Add support for alias=$somevar where alias can be used as > onmatch($alias). This change log is very lacking. What exactly is the purpose of alias? Sounds like the variable is going undercover. -- Steve > > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi