23/02/2018 22:17, Stephen Hemminger:
> Regular expressions are not the best way to match a hierarchical
> pattern like dynamic log levels. And the separator for dynamic
> log levels is period which is the regex wildcard character.
>
> A better solution is to use filename matching 'globbing' so
> that log levels match like file paths. For compatibility,
> use colon to separate pattern match style arguments. For
> example:
> --log-level 'pmd.net.virtio.*:debug'
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> ---
> +int
> +rte_log_set_level_match(const char *pattern, uint32_t level)
[...]
> +/* set level by regular expression (using pattern match is preferred) */
> int
> rte_log_set_level_regexp(const char *pattern, uint32_t level)
I think "pattern" is more appropriate than "match" to differentiate
from "regexp". So I suggest this function name:
rte_log_set_level_pattern
