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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] debug logging
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 12:37:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DBE8978.1030207@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110502103315.GA3633@playa.tlv.redhat.com>

On 2011-05-02 12:33, Alon Levy wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 12:25:30PM +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>>   Hi,
>>
>>> dbg_print takes care of making it standard to have a loglevel and prefix, sounds
>>> good, but I'd still like to know if it is acceptable to also redirect with -debug,
>>> I guess reusing the DeviceState then, instead of my added struct, so just letting
>>> DeviceState.debug_chardev == NULL by default, and settable with
>>> -debug<devname>,id=<chardev_id>
>>
>> Making dbg_print use DeviceState.debug_chardev (if present, stderr
>> otherwise) looks sane to me.  Buf I'd use standard properties then
>> to set it instead of a separate -debug switch, i.e.
>>
>>   -chardev file,id=messages,path=... \
>>   -device foo,dbg=1,dbglog=messages
>>
> 
> Sounds good. I'll try to make it so.

We have a tracing infrastructure for such use cases today. Better invest
in adding missing features there.

Jan

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Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 10:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-28  8:29 [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 0/4] qxl: debug related fixes Alon Levy
2011-04-28  8:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 1/4] qxl: interface_get_command: fix reported mode Alon Levy
2011-04-29 12:01   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-04-29 21:53     ` Alon Levy
2011-04-28  8:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 2/4] qxl: add mode to debugprint on destroy primary Alon Levy
2011-04-29 12:01   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-04-29 21:54     ` Alon Levy
2011-04-28  8:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 3/4] qxl: add debug_cs and cmdlog_cs Alon Levy
2011-04-29 12:09   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-04-29 22:19     ` Alon Levy
2011-05-02  9:02       ` [Qemu-devel] debug logging (was: Re: [PATCHv2 3/4] qxl: add debug_cs and cmdlog_cs) Gerd Hoffmann
2011-05-02 10:12         ` Alon Levy
2011-05-02 10:25           ` [Qemu-devel] debug logging Gerd Hoffmann
2011-05-02 10:33             ` Alon Levy
2011-05-02 10:37               ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-05-02 11:00                 ` Markus Armbruster
2011-05-02 11:50                   ` Alon Levy
2011-05-02 12:43                     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-02 13:04                       ` Alon Levy
2011-05-02 14:09                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2011-04-28  8:29 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv2 4/4] qxl: allow QXL_IO_LOG also in vga Alon Levy

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