[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: send failure logs to stderr

[Andrew Rybchenko]

Hi

On 6/17/21 6:29 AM, Li, Xiaoyun wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
>> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2021 00:32
>> To: Li, Xiaoyun <xiaoyun.li at intel.com>; Ori Kam <orika at nvidia.com>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Richardson, Bruce <bruce.richardson at intel.com>; Yigit,
>> Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Singh, Aman Deep
>> <aman.deep.singh at intel.com>
>> Subject: [PATCH v2] app/testpmd: send failure logs to stderr
>>
>> Running with stdout suppressed or redirected for further processing
>> is very confusing in the case of errors. Fix it by logging errors and
>> warnings to stderr.
>>
>> Since lines with log messages are touched anyway concatanate split
> 
> Typo: "concatenate"
> And it's really good to have those split strings combined. Thanks.

Thanks, fixed in v3.

>> format string to make it easier to search using grep.
>>
>> Fix indent of format string arguments.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko at oktetlabs.ru>
>> ---
>> v2:
>>  - switch from printf() to fpritnf(stderr, ...) in more cases
>>  - do not inherit acks from the previous version since the patch is
>>    much bigger
>>  - fix style in few cases (TAB vs spaces, missing space separtor etc)
>>  - still don't use TESTPMD_LOG() since the patch does not add new logs.
>>    Also switching to TESTPMD_LOG() will add "testpmd: " prefix to log
>>    messages and it is a real change and could be a pain for automation.
>>
>>  app/test-pmd/bpf_cmd.c                 |   6 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/cmdline.c                 | 957 ++++++++++++++-----------
>>  app/test-pmd/cmdline_flow.c            |  20 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/cmdline_mtr.c             |   8 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/cmdline_tm.c              |  33 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/config.c                  | 452 ++++++------
>>  app/test-pmd/csumonly.c                |   5 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/parameters.c              |  21 +-
>>  app/test-pmd/testpmd.c                 | 298 ++++----
>>  app/test-pmd/util.c                    |  19 +-
>>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_08.rst |   5 +
>>  11 files changed, 1002 insertions(+), 822 deletions(-)
> <snip>
>> 2.30.2
> 
> This patch overall looks good to me.
> 
> But there're some warnings about coding styles reported. http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/test-report/2021-June/199047.html
> Not all of them makes sense.
> But can you check ones with QUOTED_WHITESPACE_BEFORE_NEWLINE, UNSPECIFIED_INT, EMBEDDED_FUNCTION_NAME?
> The latter two type of warnings are legacy issues but it'll be good to have them fixed.

Yes, I agree. Fixed.

Andrew.