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

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Message-ID: <598D5675D34BE349929AF5EDE9B03E27016250DE@az33exm24.fsl.freescale.net>
Date:	Fri, 5 Oct 2007 13:23:47 -0700
From:	"Medve Emilian-EMMEDVE1" <Emilian.Medve@...escale.com>
To:	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Cute feature: colored printk output

Hi Jan,


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org] 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@....de>


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


Cheers,
Emil.
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