Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161801AbXEATLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:11:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161800AbXEATLR (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:11:17 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([217.147.92.249]:4395 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161802AbXEATLQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 May 2007 15:11:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 20:10:56 +0100 From: Russell King To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: pcmcia ioctl removal Message-ID: <20070501191056.GC19872@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Engelhardt , "Robert P. J. Day" , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org References: <20070430162007.ad46e153.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070501084623.GB14364@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 29 On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 12:12:36PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > init/obsolete.c: > static __init int obsolete_init(void) > { > printk("\e[1;31m"" > > The following stuff is gonna get removed \e[5;37m SOON: \e[0m > - cardmgr > - foobar > - bweebol > > "); > schedule_timeout(3 * HZ); > return; > } The kernel console isn't VT102 compatible. It doesn't understand any escape codes, at all. Neither does sysklogd. So the above will just end up as rubbish on your console. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/