linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

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Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 21:21:57 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output


On Oct 5 2007 15:19, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:13:40PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> +config VT_PRINTK_COLOR
>> +	hex "Colored kernel message output"
>> +	range 0x00 0xFF
>> +	depends on VT_CONSOLE
>> +	default 0x17
>
>Shouldn't the default at least be what we already had?  Somehow grey on
>blue sounds pretty hard to read to me.

Indeed it should be 0x07, should it go in.
Otherwise the openbsd camp might start another flamewar.

(On a personal note, would 0x1F work better for you?)
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