23/03/2021 14:37, David Marchand: > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 11:32 PM Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote: > > > > The option --log-level was not completely described in the usage text, > > and it was difficult to guess the names of the log types and levels. > > > > A new value "help" is accepted after --log-level to give more details > > about the syntax and listing the log types and levels. > > > > The array "levels" used for level name parsing is replaced with > > a (modified) existing function which was used in rte_log_dump(). > > If we forget about the slightly different formatting, why not simply > reuse rte_log_dump? > It has the advantage of listing the default level for each logtype > that a user cannot guess otherwise.
I considered rte_log_dump() too much verbose for the help text. It is printing the global level and the logtype ids. The need for the end-user in the help is different of a debug dump.