[libvirt] [PATCH] Log all errors at level INFO to stop polluting syslog

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 15:03:03 UTC 2010


On 11/23/2010 03:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> This logs at VIR_LOG_ERROR if level is ever out of range (not one of the
>> 3 defined virErrorLevel values).  Can we ever get virErrorLevel set from
>> external input, or would an out-of-range enum value represent a bug in
>> our code?  If the former, then it may still be worth keeping this
>> function, and only mapping the three known levels to VIR_LOG_INFO while
>> keeping all other values as VIR_LOG_ERROR.  If the latter, then this
>> patch seems fine to me.
> 
> The levels only ever come from our code. In addition every single
> usage is just VIR_ERR_ERROR, except for 3 places in libvirt.c
> As such the error levels have no real useful information and it
> is simplest to ignore them

Sounds reasonable.  Patches that remove more than they add are always
fun to justify.

ACK.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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