linux-kernel - Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

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Message-ID: <20070501191056.GC19872@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 20:10:56 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-pcmcia@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: pcmcia ioctl removal

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:
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