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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>,
	devzero@web.de, Matt.Domsch@dell.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:27:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <476705CD.4020405@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712180023310.32270@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 16 2007 20:18, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> Why tax other people with a warning/hang etc. in printk when the
>>> problem is very unlikely on their systems?
>> I think there is sense in it if you do it subtly differently.
>>
>> 	printk(".. if this hangs do ... \r");
>> 	edd_stuff();
>> 	printk("                          \r");
>> 	
>>
>> So that we display it, do the EDD call, then write over it with whatever
>> is next that matters.
> 
> Does printk support escape sequences? The last time I tried
> printk("\e[1;35m omg ponies \e[0m"); that did not went too successful.
> 

Uh, no.  Do that and anyone trying to interpret logs will beat you to 
death with a pickled herring.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-17 23:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-16 19:11 [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD devzero
2007-12-16 19:59 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 20:18   ` Alan Cox
2007-12-17 23:25     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-17 23:27       ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-12-18  0:10       ` Alan Cox
2007-12-18  0:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-16 21:04 devzero
2007-12-16 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-16 19:19 devzero
2007-12-16 15:34 devzero
2007-12-16 17:34 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-12-16 18:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  1:15   ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  1:48     ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  1:57       ` Andi Kleen
2007-12-22  2:22         ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-12-22  2:41           ` Andi Kleen

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