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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] log: add ability to match dynamic log
 based on shell pattern
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 16:59:08 -0700
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On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 23:08:01 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 04/04/2018 13:34, Thomas Monjalon:
> > 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  
> 
> Are you OK to do a v3 with this change?
> 
> 

Sure, I expected some feedback since it it was a semantic change in
the API.  Let me also recheck the documentation.