[PATCH v23 00/15] Logging improvements

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 09:56:05PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Improvements and unification of logging library.
> This version works on all platforms: Linux, Windows and FreeBSD.
> 
> This is update to rework patch set. It adds several new features
> to the console log output.
> 
>   * Putting a timestamp on console output which is useful for
>     analyzing performance of startup codes. Timestamp is optional
>     and must be enabled on command line.
> 
>   * Displaying console output with colors.
>     It uses the standard conventions used by many other Linux commands
>     for colorized display.  The default is to enable color if the
>     console output is going to a terminal. But it can be always
>     on or disabled by command line flag. This default was chosen
>     based on what dmesg(1) command does.
> 
>     Color is used by many tools (vi, iproute2, git) because it is helpful;
>     DPDK drivers and libraries print lots of not very useful messages.
>     And having error messages highlighted in bold face helps.
>     This might also get users to pay more attention to error messages.
>     Many bug reports have earlier messages that are lost because
>     there are so many info messages.
> 
>   * Add support for automatic detection of systemd journal
>     protocol. If running as systemd service will get enhanced
>     logging.
> 
>   * Use of syslog is optional and the meaning of the
>     --syslog flag has changed. The default is *not* to use
>     syslog if output is going to a terminal.
> 
> Add myself as maintainer for log because by now have added
> more than previous authors.
> 
> v23 - simplify and fix Windows and FreeBSD builds; fix #ifdefs.
>       Change from defining stubs to using inline functions in log_private.h.
> 
> Stephen Hemminger (15):
>   maintainers: add for log library
>   windows: make getopt functions have const properties
>   windows: add os shim for localtime_r
>   eal: make eal_log_level_parse common
>   eal: do not duplicate rte_init_alert() messages
>   eal: change rte_exit() output to match rte_log()
>   log: move handling of syslog facility out of eal
>   eal: initialize log before everything else
>   log: drop syslog support, and make code common
>   log: add hook for printing log messages
>   log: add timestamp option
>   log: add optional support of syslog
>   log: add support for systemd journal
>   log: colorize log output
>   doc: add release note about log library
> 
Thanks for the cleanup.

Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>