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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:16:46 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071006171646.GC14375@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071006110835.GA24463@elte.hu>

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 01:08:35PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:

 > feature request: would be interesting to have a color table (defined in 
 > the .config) dependent on message loglevel. That way KERN_CRIT messages 
 > could be red, KERN_INFO ones white, etc.

If we do this, please let there be a CONFIG_ option to turn it off (and that
should probably be the default too).  Bootup text looking like a fruit salad
doesn't really sound like something that will make debugging any easier.

	Dave

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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-06 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05 19:13 [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 19:19 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-05 19:21   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 19:24     ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-05 19:32       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 19:43         ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-10-05 19:55           ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-05 20:23 ` Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
2007-10-05 23:22 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-05 23:47   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-06  0:10     ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-06  0:23       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-06  0:26         ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-06 11:58           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-10-06 11:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-10-06 17:16   ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-10-06 18:09   ` Oleg Verych
2007-10-06 19:53 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-06 20:01   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-07  0:50     ` Bill Davidsen
2007-10-07  8:42       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-10-06 21:19 ` Miguel Botón

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