Discuss: --log-level option and clarifying log levels

[Colin Ian King]

Hi there,

I'm thinking of adding a --log-level option to fwts.

fwts --log-level=[critical|high|medium|low|info]

It will basically only print out and account for fwts errors of the
given level or higher.  E.g.

fwts --log-level=high will just account for errors that are high or
critical.

The fwts team are also thinking of clarifying the meanings of these
levels and fixing up all the error messages to match the definition.

So let's try and start to define this properly. I am proposing:

critical:  errors that can stop a machine from working, or can make it
behave in a way detrimental to the hardware.

high:  errors that will make the machine perform incorrectly or
sub-optimally

medium:  issues that would be useful to fix as they cause kernel message
but the kernel can fix these up or work around the error and the machine
will function fine.

low:  miscellaneous small issues but don't affect the machine, the user
won't notice any kernel warnings and fixing this won't make any difference.

info: not really a error, just some useful help information about a very
minor issue that really is worth noting to give some feedback about why
the kernel may print a message, e.g. "PnPBIOS Disabled by ACPI PNP".

Feel free to comment on these definitions so we can hone these into
something workable.

Colin