Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] log: add ability to match dynamic log based on shell pattern

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

23/02/2018 22:17, Stephen Hemminger:
> Regular expressions are not the best way to match a hierarchical
> pattern like dynamic log levels. And the separator for dynamic
> log levels is period which is the regex wildcard character.
> 
> A better solution is to use filename matching 'globbing' so
> that log levels match like file paths. For compatibility,
> use colon to separate pattern match style arguments. For
> example:
> 	--log-level 'pmd.net.virtio.*:debug'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> +int
> +rte_log_set_level_match(const char *pattern, uint32_t level)
[...]
> +/* set level by regular expression (using pattern match is preferred) */
>  int
>  rte_log_set_level_regexp(const char *pattern, uint32_t level)

I think "pattern" is more appropriate than "match" to differentiate
from "regexp". So I suggest this function name:
	rte_log_set_level_pattern