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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing/filters: Improve subsystem filter
>>> bool dry_run sounds perhaps more intuitive for what is happening there.
>> I guess you "try_run". ;)
>>
>>> Because "apply" is surprising in a "add_thing" function, it's like
>>> a field to confirm that we know what what we are doing :)
>>>
>>> (May be I start to become a PITA with my naming worries, especially
>>> since I'm usually not good at it in my patches :)
>>>
>> I'll take "try_run". Naming is often hard for me.
>
>
> No I really meant "dry run"
> "Try run" is already a function that would implicitly fit into
> every function :)
>
> Ie, dry run means:
>
> "Behave as if you were truly doing it, just to see if it works.
> But don't really do it"
>

Got it. Thanks. :)



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