[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: add option to put timestamp on console output

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:37:40 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 12:20:28PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 22:09:11 +0300
> > Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 11:45:49 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:  
> > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 21:39:29 +0300
> > > > Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com> wrote:    
> > > [...]  
> > > > FreeBsd doesn't go through the same log code.    
> > > 
> > > Then --log-timestamp shouldn't appear on FreeBSD if it's unsupported.  
> > 
> > Was using same ifdef that is already there. There are several options already
> > (like syslog facility) which do nothing on FreeBSD anyway.
> >   
> While that is correct, I think that we really should support this on
> FreeBSD also, since I don't think there is any technical reason we can't do
> so, right? Even a sub-optimal solution where the timestamp write and log
> write are non-atomic would be better than nothing.
> 
> /Bruce

FreeBSD now just uses default log stream (stdout).
Linux has log stream to syslog and stdout.

There is nothing Linux specific in the old or new code.
The Linux code could just be moved to common, and both could use it.
That is a separate patch, and someone with expertise and build setup for FreeBSD needs to do it.