* Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would say that while I'm not particularly fond of flashy colors
> everywhere, I think that being able to use colors to indicate
> particular actions in progress or conditions can be a good thing. RAID
> errors, devices disabled due to command-line parameters, and general
> anomalies which can cause a hang or panic a few line laters are worth
> coloring. And I don't believe in userland's help here, because for
> that type of messages, the indication should be returned immediately.
> For instance, anyone who has experienced read errors on and IDE disk
> knows that it can literally take hours/days to boot, after displaying
> thousands of messages. Here, having the ability to see that no IRQ was
> assigned or something like this could help.
Exactly. I'm also testing older distros quite regularly with new kernels
and there's it's useful to have an impression of a kernel's output at a
glance. Adding _any_ userspace change (even if i wanted to do it, which
i dont) is out of question. So these are distinct, well-defined usecases
that nobody has brought any coherent argument against yet. VGA isnt
going away anytime soon, certainly not on my testboxes.
Ingo
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