Re: [PATCH v2 33/40] tracing: Add hist trigger support for variable reference aliases

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 16:57:45 -0500
Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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

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> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>