Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263769AbUFTIin (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 04:38:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265509AbUFTIin (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 04:38:43 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:65155 "EHLO baythorne.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263769AbUFTIim (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jun 2004 04:38:42 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stop printk printing non-printable chars From: David Woodhouse To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , jbglaw@lug-owl.de, arjanv@redhat.com, Linus Torvalds , matthew-lkml@newtoncomputing.co.uk In-Reply-To: <1087704177.8185.951.camel@cube> References: <1087704177.8185.951.camel@cube> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Message-Id: <1087720713.4520.13.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2.dwmw2.1) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 09:38:33 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by baythorne.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 775 Lines: 22 On Sun, 2004-06-20 at 00:02 -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > The 0x9b character must be blocked, Why do you say 'must be blocked' instead of 'should not be printed'? The former implies some kind of post-processing to work around buggy kernel code printing crap. Surely it's better just to refrain from printing the crap in the first place? Btw, your replies lack a correct References: and In-Reply-To: header, in violation of a 'SHOULD' in RFC2822 ยง3.6.4. Please fix this if you wish to participate in public fora. -- dwmw2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/