got it, then lets keep it as is.

On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 12:34:35PM -0700, Ildar Muslukhov wrote:
>  > What do you think if we combine -l, -q and -v parameters in the following 
> way:
>  > absence of the parameter will set log level to base (1)
>  > -l off will work as it is right now (logging is off)
>  > -l N is setup of the level (i.e., -l 1 will be equal to the default
>  > settings, where N can be from 0 to 2 as it is right now).
>  >
>  > This way we can simplify the log handling from source code point of
>  > view. Having three parameters which might collide with each other
>  > seems rather error prone.
>
> Combining them might mean we can't express some existing use-cases though.
> Verbosity of the messages to the screen vs what gets logged to disk are kind
> of separate things.
>
> Valid right now:
>
> logging to disk, no output to screen other than seed. (-qq)
> logging to disk, output seeds & watchdog progress counter (-q)
> logging to disk, syscall details (no args)
> logging to disk, verbose output (-v)
>
> and 'no log' variants of all.
> I'm not sure we can really express 8 possibilities into one arg and
> without people needing to look up what the values represent.
>
>
>         Dave
>
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