[sane-devel] SANE 1.1.0 Release discussion

[Johannes Meixner]

Hello,

On May 6 08:08 Frank Zago wrote:
> 
> > 6. Common debugging bitmask:
> >
> > 1 major errors
> > 2 minor errors
> > 4 function start/stop msgs
> > 8 function detail msg
> > 16 SANE_OPTION processing msgs
> > 32 calibration msgs
> > 64 outgoing command dump
> > 128 incoming data dump
> >
> > help me fix that...
> >   
> Should these need to be bitmasks ? I think most backends are using
> levels instead. Bitmasks are more complicated to use for a normal user,
> while a level is pretty simple.

According to my experience, normal users don't care whether
the stuff is technically a bitmask or a level. Usually they
like to provide one single full debug log file using just the
maximum bitmask or level and leave the rest to the experts.

Therefore I prefer bitmasks provided that the debug output has
appropriate identifiers for each kind of message so that one can
easily "grep" for certain kind of messages in a debug log file.


Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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