> From: dev [mailto:dev-boun...@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2021 2:36 PM
> 
> 10/03/2021 14:26, Bruce Richardson:
> > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 01:33:20PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 10/03/2021 13:19, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 12:31:10AM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > > > 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 <tho...@monjalon.net>
> > > >
> > > > 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?
> > >
> >
> > Because a scale of 0-9 is more logical in the decimal system.
> > We could also generalize that any number >8 is just reduced to 8 and
> > we issue a warning and continue.
> 
> In this case, we should accept any high value, not limiting arbitrary
> to 9, and emit a warning.
> 

I don't care which levels are acceptable. For reference, SYSLOG levels go from 
0 to 7 (both inclusive).

-Morten

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