Deprecate phosphor-hostlogger?

[Ed Tanous]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone have opinions on if we deprecate phosphor-hostlogger?
>
> I ended up becoming the "maintainer" of it due to the original maintainers
> no longer being able to contribute to OpenBMC.  I've read through the
> README and it is very much not clear to me what advantages it has over
> using the similar functionality contained in obmc-console directly.
> There is some mention of rsyslog and logrotate integration, but
> obmc-console already supports a logrotate-like functionality, and I
> think rsyslog could be easily configured to pick up the log files
> created by obmc-console, if someone were so inclined.
>
> It appears to only be used by the following meta layers:
>
>     * meta-amd
>     * meta-ampere
>     * meta-bytedance
>     * meta-quanta / s6q
>     * meta-tyan
>     * meta-yadro
>
> It seems that this repository also incurred some bmcweb support that is
> enabled for most systems (by default), even though they do not have the
> corresponding daemon.
>
> Can any of the system owners above comment as to what functionality they
> are gaining by using phosphor-hostlogger over using obmc-console
> directly?  Is this some functionality missing from obmc-console or is it
> just a relationship between host logging, bmcweb and rsyslog that we
> need to add?
>
> --
> Patrick Williams

I'm not aware of any bmcweb users. Since the feature was merged it has
been relatively quiet in terms of additions/bug fixes.  I'm in support
of removing/deprecating it.

-Ed