Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761271AbXJFRRP (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:17:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751904AbXJFRQ7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:16:59 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:46754 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920AbXJFRQ6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:16:58 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 13:16:46 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output Message-ID: <20071006171646.GC14375@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Ingo Molnar , Jan Engelhardt , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton References: <20071006110835.GA24463@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071006110835.GA24463@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 771 Lines: 19 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 -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/