[ovs-dev] [PATCH] vlog: Rename the currently used term 'facility' to 'destination'.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Wed Jan 7 17:09:51 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 06, 2015 at 01:49:05PM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> In OVS, we currently use the term 'facility' to mean the place
> where we log (syslog, console or file). In Linux's syslog() and
> rfc5424, the term 'facility' is used to specify what type of program
> is logging the message (e.g: LOG_DAEMON). This causes confusion
> while reading vlog's code. This commit changes the term 'facility'
> to 'destination'.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>



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