On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 4:46 AM, Randell Jesup <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >>Various bits of code invented a log level that was less important than > >>debug (I would call this verbose). This was not specified in NSPR > logging, > >>but just kind of worked. With the addition of |Info| we can transition > code > >>that was using this pseudo log level to: > >> - map PR_LOG_DEBUG => Info > >> - map PR_LOG_DEBUG + 1 => Debug > >> > >>In this case we could have added a |Verbose| log level, but with the > >>addition of |Info| and feeling that fewer is better we have decided > against > >>that. > > > > This is used extensively in WebRTC and related media bits to enable > > *huge* amounts of debugs (like every-frame debugs for audio or video or > > per-network-packet debugs, which will swamp a system normally), and since > > people are used to enabling "debug" on random modules (or all:5), having > > verbose debugs in the "normal" :5 setting will cause pain. > > Can this be controlled some other way? Via a #define? Via another > environment variable? > > I ask because in discussions with Eric I've been encouraging him to > reduce the number of logging levels as much as possible. It would be > sad to have to complicate the general mechanism because one module > does things differently to the rest of the system. > I think it's generally valuable to have a trace level for all networking-type things. Having some separate mechanism seems like the more complicated thing. -Ekr _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
