Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 06/11] eal: catch invalid log level number
From: Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-10 12:33:29
From: Thomas Monjalon <hidden>
Date: 2021-03-10 12:33:29
10/03/2021 13:19, Bruce Richardson:
On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:31:10AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:quoted
The parsing check for invalid log level was not trying to catch irrelevant numeric values. A log level 0 or too high is now a failure in options parsing so it can be caught early. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <redacted>One thing I'd note here is that our log range of 1 to 8 is a little strange, and that it would be nice if we could accept 9 as a valid log level too on the cmdline. Ideally 0 would also be acceptable, for all logging off, but it's more likely that people want to up the log level than reduce it, and 9 is a more expected max value than 8.
Why 9 is more expected? Note that log level numbers are old-school, now we can use symbolic names ;)