RE: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

From: Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 16:24:09 EST


Hi Jan,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 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 <jengelh@xxxxxx>


I like it. A somewhat related nice feature would be to print different
loglevels with different colors.


Cheers,
Emil.
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