Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764101AbXJEUYH (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:24:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762304AbXJEUX4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:23:56 -0400 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:60218 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761666AbXJEUXz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Oct 2007 16:23:55 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Subject: RE: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:23:47 -0700 Message-ID: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E27016250DE@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net> In-Reply-To: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output Thread-Index: AcgHg+r4s8OAMtIUQZqNAf/CsHBGwQACVz6A References: From: "Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1" To: "Jan Engelhardt" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Cc: "Andrew Morton" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1263 Lines: 41 Hi Jan, > -----Original Message----- > From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org > [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jan > Engelhardt > Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 2:14 PM > To: Linux Kernel Mailing List > Cc: Andrew Morton > Subject: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output > > > Colored kernel message output > > Let's work more on Linux's cuteness! > [http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/10/4/431] > The following patch makes it possible to give kernel messages a > selectable color which helps to distinguish it from other noise, > such as boot messages. NetBSD has it, OpenBSD has it, FreeBSD to some > extent, so I think Linux should too. > > Inspired by cko (http://freshmeat.net/p/cko/), but independently > written, later contributed forth and back. > > Already posted at: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/1/162 > > Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt I like it. A somewhat related nice feature would be to print different loglevels with different colors. Cheers, Emil. - 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/