[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] verbosity reduction

[Reimar Döffinger]

Hi,
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:06:18AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> Why would that be prohibitively complex? On the surface it seems fairly
> simple; create a "verbosity" variable for each such category, set it to
> be initially equal to MSGL_STATUS (which is the default verbosity), sum
> it with the value passed for that category on the command line, and then

Good idea so far...

> change every mp_msg call to be of the form "mp_msg(MSGT_FOO, MSGL_FOO +
> verbosity, ...) (where "verbosity" is the appropriate variable for the

Now it is getting stupid. Why should the caller decide on verbosity? The
mp_msg function can do this, after all there is the MSGT_* for some
reason... Changing all mp_msg calls is not acceptable anyway IMO.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger