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From: Dave Jones <davej@...>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output
Date: Saturday, October 6, 2007 - 1:16 pm

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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[PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 3:13 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Miguel Botón, (Sat Oct 6, 5:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Bill Davidsen, (Sat Oct 6, 3:53 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Sat Oct 6, 4:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Bill Davidsen, (Sat Oct 6, 8:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Oct 7, 4:42 am)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Ingo Molnar, (Sat Oct 6, 7:08 am)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Oleg Verych, (Sat Oct 6, 2:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Dave Jones, (Sat Oct 6, 1:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Krzysztof Halasa, (Fri Oct 5, 7:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 7:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Krzysztof Halasa, (Fri Oct 5, 8:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 8:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 8:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sat Oct 6, 7:58 am)
RE: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1, (Fri Oct 5, 4:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Oct 5, 3:19 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 3:21 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Oct 5, 3:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 3:32 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Lennart Sorensen, (Fri Oct 5, 3:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output, Jan Engelhardt, (Fri Oct 5, 3:55 pm)