Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/8] eal: dynamic logs

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>]

2017-04-04 18:40, Olivier Matz:
> The objective of this patchset is to introduce a framework to
> support dynamic log types in EAL. It also provides one example of use
> (in i40e).
> 
> Features:
> - log types are identified by a string
> - at registration, a uniq identifier is associated to a log type
> - each log type can have its level changed dynamically
> - extend command line parameters to set the log level of a specific
>   type, or logs matching a regular expression
> - keep compat with other legacy types (eal, malloc, ring, user*,
>   etc... keep their hardcoded log type value)

Applied, thanks

> Next step is to adapt drivers, libs and apps to use this new API. At the
> end, we can expect that all non-dataplane logs are moved to be dynamic,
> so we can enable/disable them at runtime, without recompiling. Many
> debug options can probably be removed from configuration:
>   $ git grep DEBUG config/common_base | wc -l
>   89

Please maintainers, let's remove these useless DEBUG options!
Thanks