Re: about use wild cards for set_ftrace_filter and so on

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 27 2008 - 11:21:46 EST



* walimis <walimisdev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I only add a note, but I wonder whether enough.
> If needed, I can add a example to this document.
>
> Impact: imporve document

[ You need to slightly improve the commit log as well ;-) ]

> +Note: you'd better to use '' to enclose wild cards, otherwise in some
> +case you can't get the correct result.
> +
> # echo hrtimer_* > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

Why not fix the example too? Something like:

> +Note: you'd better to use '' to enclose wild cards, otherwise in some
> +case you can't get the correct result due to shell wildcard
> +extension:.
> +
> # echo 'hrtimer_*' > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_filter

looks good otherwise.

Ingo
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