linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

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Message-ID: <20071218001007.2324dbfc@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:10:07 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@...il.com>, devzero@....de,
	Matt.Domsch@...l.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD

> Does printk support escape sequences? The last time I tried
> printk("\e[1;35m omg ponies \e[0m"); that did not went too successful.

It should handle \r correctly. If not that is easy to fix.

Escape codes are bad and should not be used - you may have a serial
console and not be on a Linux console
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