Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 20 Jun 1996 00:49:27 -0400 (EDT) | From | Kenneth Albanowski <> | Subject | Re: Ideas for v2.1 |
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, John Sullivan wrote:
> That's a good point. If people still want colourization, however, the > tags method ought to work, requires no intelligence up until the > syslogger point.
Why do we even need tags? Why not deal with this on a completely separate layer that either uses the console directly, or is turned off? If the colorizing/back-up functions were separate, you could say:
printkcolor(TESTING); printk("Testing for dangerous thingy...\n"); // do test that might lock up machine printkerase(); // erase previous line printkcolor(NORMAL); if( KERN_VERBOSE ) printk("Dangerous thingy not present.\n");
_Only_ the stuff coming out of printk would feed through the syslogd stuff. The rest would directly effect the console layer. If a serial console was being used, it would be shut off.
-- Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
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