Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932111AbXJFTrT (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:47:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758853AbXJFTrK (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:47:10 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:41038 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751537AbXJFTrJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:47:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4707E7C9.8010501@tmr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:53:45 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1112 Lines: 27 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > 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. > I like it, although having a boot option would be nice (I have a friend with color perception issues). I start my root xterm in white on blue for identification, so color coding sounds like a great idea to me. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/