On Wednesday, January 07, 2015 10:54:18 AM Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> >
> > This term change is big enough that I think it deserves to go to
> > the NEWS file as well.
> I would like to clarify (to make sure we are on the same page) that
> the term change does not change anything for a system admin except
> that he now sees the word 'destination' instead of the word 'facility'
> in the manual pages. If you feel a NEWS item helps, then how about the
> following incremental?

It's kind of established term in the documentation, so I think we should
inform people that the old term is being renamed.

> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index 8fcc14b..572481d 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Post-v2.3.0
>       This is generic tunneling mechanism for userspace datapath.
>     - Support for multicast snooping (IGMPv1 and IGMPv2)
>     - Support for Linux kernels up to 3.18.x
> +   - The man pages now use the term 'destination' to mean one of syslog,
> +     console or file for logging instead of the previously used term
> +     'facility'.

or another suggestion:

- The vlog 'facility' term meaning syslog, console or file for logging is
   renamed to 'destination'.

Either one is fine with me.
Thanks,
fbl
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