Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/filters: Support filtering for char *strings

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 23:31:27 EST



On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Li Zefan wrote:

> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Ah, so the answer I'm looking for is:
> >
> > The filtering will not dereference "char *" unless the developer
> > explicitly sets FILTER_PTR_STR in __field_ext.
> >
> > Is this above statement correct?
> >
>
> Exactly. Sorry that I didn't explain it clearly in the
> first place. :)

No problem. It is quite often that things so blatantly obvious to a
developer is totally foreign for the observer, that the simple explanation
is commonly overlooked.

I'll pull in your patches, with the -1 update, as well as adding my
above statement to this patch's change log.

I'll queue it for 32.

Thanks!

-- Steve

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