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        "From": "Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH v11 0/9] Logging unification and enhancements",
        "Date": "Sat, 23 Mar 2024 19:33:22 -0700",
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    "content": "Improvements and unification of logging library (for 24.07 release).\nThis version works on all platforms: Linux, Windows and FreeBSD.\n\nThis is update to rework patch set. It adds several new features\nto the console log output.\n\n  * Putting a timestamp on console output which is useful for\n    analyzing performance of startup codes. Timestamp is optional\n    and must be enabled on command line.\n\n  * Displaying console output with colors.\n    It uses the standard conventions used by many other Linux commands\n    for colorized display.  The default is to enable color if the\n    console output is going to a terminal. But it can be always\n    on or disabled by command line flag. This default was chosen\n    based on what dmesg(1) command does.\n\n    I find color helpful because DPDK drivers and libraries print\n    lots of not very useful messages. And having error messages\n    highlighted in bold face helps. This might also get users to\n    pay more attention to error messages. Many bug reports have\n    earlier messages that are lost because there are so many\n    info messages.\n\n  * Use of syslog on Linux is replaced by using journal\n    API (over unix domain socket). This replaces legacy syslog;\n    (almost) all Linux distros have switched to journal.\n\nWill add a release note in next release (after this is merged)\n\nv11 - rework to be portable to Windows\n      drop syslog support and support journal instead\n\nStephen Hemminger (9):\n  windows: make getopt functions have const properties\n  eal: make eal_log_level_parse common\n  eal: do not duplicate rte_init_alert() messages\n  eal: change rte_exit() output to match rte_log()\n  log: drop syslog support, and make code common\n  log: add hook for printing log messages\n  log: add timestamp option\n  log: add support for systemd journal\n  log: colorize log output\n\n app/test/test_eal_flags.c                     |  38 +-\n doc/guides/linux_gsg/linux_eal_parameters.rst |  27 -\n .../prog_guide/env_abstraction_layer.rst      |   5 +-\n doc/guides/prog_guide/log_lib.rst             |  41 +-\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_debug.c             |  11 +-\n lib/eal/common/eal_common_options.c           | 123 ++---\n lib/eal/common/eal_internal_cfg.h             |   2 +-\n lib/eal/common/eal_options.h                  |   7 +-\n lib/eal/freebsd/eal.c                         |  54 +-\n lib/eal/linux/eal.c                           |  52 +-\n lib/eal/unix/eal_debug.c                      |   3 +-\n lib/eal/windows/eal.c                         |  39 +-\n lib/eal/windows/getopt.c                      |  23 +-\n lib/eal/windows/include/getopt.h              |   8 +-\n lib/log/log.c                                 | 513 ++++++++++++++++--\n lib/log/log_freebsd.c                         |  12 -\n lib/log/log_internal.h                        |  16 +-\n lib/log/log_linux.c                           |  61 ---\n lib/log/log_windows.c                         |  18 -\n lib/log/meson.build                           |   5 +-\n lib/log/version.map                           |   2 +\n 21 files changed, 656 insertions(+), 404 deletions(-)\n delete mode 100644 lib/log/log_freebsd.c\n delete mode 100644 lib/log/log_linux.c\n delete mode 100644 lib/log/log_windows.c"
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