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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/6] rte_log.h: add detailed log levels
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 11:44:03AM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Why 11 log levels - it seems an odd number?
> Also, not sure about the {fine, finer, finest} names. My thinking would be to
> just start numbering them after DEBUG, so RTE_LOG_L9, RTE_LOG_L10 etc., which
> would allow us to add on an arbitrary number of extra log levels as needed.
> 
> /Bruce

I based it on this, it worked very well for me in the past.

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/logging/Level.html

But happy to name them anything people want and have any number of them people 
want. I am not religious about the details, just want the feature.

Matthew.