[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 04/25] printout pthread id number in pulseaudio log

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Lu Guanqun at 01/09/11 03:16 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 09:53:34AM +0800, David Henningsson wrote:
>>> Hi Col,
>>>
>>> Do you think it's better to invoke pa_thread_new("alsa-sink 0", func, u)
>>> or adding another index after the plain name? (e.g.
>>> pa_thread_new("alsa-sink", index, func, u))
>>>
>>
>> Having seen this in action for a while I'd say I like the idea in
>> general, but I have a few things to wish for if possible:
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
>>
>> 1) Yes, having "alsa-sink 0" (for whatever 0 means, sink index, module
>> index) is helpful, e g when you have four soundcards and get an
>> "Underrun from ALSA!" message and don't know what card that is. My
>> favorite would be if you can get the ALSA shortname in (e g "alsa-sink
>> SB" or "alsa-sink Headset") but I don't know if that's easy enough to do.
>>
>> 2) If we can eliminate this information from the main thread (empty
>> brackets or just remove it altogether), that would reduce most of the
>> log size increased by this patch.
> 
> On point 2, do you mean "[pulseaudio] xxxx" should be better changed to
> "[] xxxx" or "xxxx" instead? I agree it's annoying to see lots of
> "pulseaudio" messages on the log.
> 
> I can help to make our debugging life easier. :)

Just so that work is not duplicated, this is the patch I currently have
in my "pending" tree for after we reopen master for general feature
improvements again.

Col



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