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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Dec 16 2007 20:18, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Why tax other people with a warning/hang etc. in printk when the
> > > problem is very unlikely on their systems?
> > I think there is sense in it if you do it subtly differently.
> >
> > 	printk(".. if this hangs do ... \r");
> > 	edd_stuff();
> > 	printk("                          \r");
> > 	
> >
> > So that we display it, do the EDD call, then write over it with whatever
> > is next that matters.
>
> Does printk support escape sequences? The last time I tried
> printk("\e[1;35m omg ponies \e[0m"); that did not went too successful.

Uh, no.  Do that and anyone trying to interpret logs will beat you to 
death with a pickled herring.

	-hpa
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