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From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>, passt-dev@passt.top
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] passt: make --quiet set the log level to warning
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:27:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240227152701.63e39d71@elisabeth> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZdhTUFzOZnZJc1aa@zatzit>

On Fri, 23 Feb 2024 19:12:00 +1100
David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 06:17:39PM +0100, Paul Holzinger wrote:
> > Based on the man page and help output --quiet hides informational
> > messages. This means that warnings should still be logged. This was
> > discussed in[1].
> > 
> > [1] https://archives.passt.top/passt-dev/20240216114304.7234a83f@elisabeth/T/#m42652824644973674e84baf9e0bf1d0e88104450
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>  
> 
> Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> 
> in terms of implementing what it says it does.  Stefano, your call on
> whether this is something we want to do, or whether updating the docs
> would be better.

No, no, I was actually suggesting this change: "quiet" seems to better
suited to describe the fact that we cut down on messages that are not
fundamental, but warnings arguably are -- even though the distinction
between error and warning is still useful for a system logger, I guess.

-- 
Stefano


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-27 14:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-22 17:17 [PATCH 1/2] passt: make --quiet set the log level to warning Paul Holzinger
2024-02-22 17:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] conf: set the log level much earlier Paul Holzinger
2024-02-23  8:10   ` David Gibson
2024-02-27 14:27   ` Stefano Brivio
2024-02-23  8:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] passt: make --quiet set the log level to warning David Gibson
2024-02-27 14:27   ` Stefano Brivio [this message]
2024-02-27 14:27 ` Stefano Brivio

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