Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] util: virlog: Introduce wildcard to log filters

Since the introduction of log tuning capabilities to virt-admin by @06b91785, this has been a much needed missing improvement on the way to deprecate the global 'log_level'. Signed-off-by: Erik Skultety <eskultet(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/remote/libvirtd.conf | 4 +++- src/util/virlog.c | 44 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- src/util/virlog.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/remote/libvirtd.conf b/src/remote/libvirtd.conf index 9c0080dc0..7d823cf1a 100644 --- a/src/remote/libvirtd.conf +++ b/src/remote/libvirtd.conf @@ -368,7 +368,9 @@ # Multiple filters can be defined in a single @filters, they just need to be # separated by spaces. Note that libvirt performs "first" match, i.e. if # there are concurrent filters, the first one that matches will be applied, -# given the order in log_filters. +# given the order in log_filters with the exception of a wildcard filter, since +# that's only taken into account if no other filter has matched, so +# "4:* 1:util.pci" and "1:util.pci 4:*" are equivalent definitions. #

# e.g. to only get warning or errors from the remote layer and only errors # from the event layer: