Significant enough to add some documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Morten Brørup <m...@smartsharesystems.com> Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> Acked-by: Chengwen Feng <fengcheng...@huawei.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst index fa4822d928..ec4b7ba2a4 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_24_11.rst @@ -349,6 +349,25 @@ API Changes and replaced it with a new shared devarg ``llq_policy`` that keeps the same logic. +* **Logging library changes** + + * The log is initialized earlier in startup so all messages go through the library. + + * Added a new option to timestamp log messages, which is useful for + debugging delays in application and driver startup. + + * Syslog option change. If *--syslog* is specified, then messages + will go to syslog; if not specified then messages will only be displayed + on stderr. This option is now supported on FreeBSD (but not on Windows). + + * If the application is a systemd service and the log output is being + sent of standard error then DPDK will switch to journal native protocol. + + * Log messages can be timestamped with *--log-timestamp* option. + + * Log messages can be colorized with the *--log-color* option. + + ABI Changes ----------- -- 2.45.2
