* Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 <[email protected]>
looks really good to me!
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
small nit:
+ vc->vc_color = printk_color;
+ update_attr(vc);
that should be in a set_vc_color() function and the new code should do:
+ set_vc_color(vc, vc->vc_color);
(and same at the other places that call update_attr() as well)
feature request: would be interesting to have a color table (defined in
the .config) dependent on message loglevel. That way KERN_CRIT messages
could be red, KERN_INFO ones white, etc.
Ingo
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