Re: "Re: [PATCH 0/2] Colored kernel output (run2)"

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

(changing Subject: back again, since Alan's returning to that topic...)

On Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:12:22 BST, Alan Cox said:

> What I would much rather people thought about was
> 
> - Marker modes for translation (so you know which bits of a message are
> formatted up)
> - More consistency on the use of "name: blah" to make it easier to parse
> - Turning more messages from kernel logs to events when it makes sense
> (eg "Disk Full", "Media Error", "CPU on fire")

What would it take to have a pointer chain at a *well known* location or
similar magic so if a machine died, I'd be able to hook up a laptop with a
FireWire cable and do firescope magic to extract at least/just the dmesg buffer?  

(Yes, I know this requires a 1394 port and some previous cooperation and setup
on the part of the 1394 driver. Assume I can get away with saying "add this
to your kernel command line to make debugging easier for me" ;)

(And yes, 5 years ago I'd have been wanting a "dump dmesg to floppy" patch,
but times move one and 1394 is more likely than a floppy now...)

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