phosphor-logging plugins vs new daemons

[Matt Spinler]

On 4/25/2019 1:11 PM, Matt Spinler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have some work coming up where we need to create different formats of
> error logs based on the phosphor logging error log items that are 
> created.
> We can accomplish this by either creating a separate daemon that listens
> for D-Bus signals for new log entries, or we come up with a plugin
> architecture for phosphor-log-manager where we let libs register 
> functions
> in certain points, like before/after a log is created/deleted.
>
> At this point we are leaning toward the plugin route, as apparently
> there was some discussion at the last OCP that recommended this.
>
> I'm just wondering if anyone has any leanings either way, or any other
> ideas before we start on a design document?
>

I pushed up a short design that proposes using plugins at

https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/c/openbmc/docs/+/21071


> Thanks!
> Matt
>