[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Add a target to the PA log feature and improve PA log core

[Becker, VincentX]

>From: Maarten Bosmans [mailto:mkbosmans at gmail.com]
>
>2011/2/23 Becker, VincentX <vincentx.becker at intel.com>:
>> Thanks for your review Maarten. So you suggest to split this into
>several patches (2). One for the outer implementation and the other for
>the inner one. I will try to attend to the irc meeting tomorrow so I can
>catch your remarks in real time.
>
>I'm not sure what you mean by outer and inner implementation. What I
>meant was one patch thats adds the option to log to a file (this patch
>touches all four files) and one patch that does the metadata,
>append_data thing (should only change src/pulsecore/log.c)
>
>Having two clean patches (see my other comments) tomorrow would help
>to keep thing moving in the meeting.

Hi Maarten, 
Here are the 2 patches as you suggested (both patches can be compiled separately). I also integrated one of your remarks, but not all. Like concerning the file naming, as you said it might be a bit too complicated and appending the file or creating a new one might be enough. But it remains a powerful way to debug pulseaudio and it is more direct than using syslog.
I also wrote a module dedicated to log PCM samples, configurable for sinks and/or sources with or without their respective sink inputs/source outputs. I will submit it probably next month.

Vince

>
>Sorry for getting this rolling on such a short notice.
No problem at all!
>
>Maarten
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> V.
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