On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:47:25PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:13:09PM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 08:47:52PM +0200, Rene Herman wrote: > > > On 10/07/2007 06:12 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > > > >* Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >>Coloring isn't useful. If it was, it would be implemented ~16 years > > > >>ago. > > > > > > > >Congratulations, this is the most stupid argument i've ever read on > > > >lkml. > [] > > 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. > > That *is* the coloring, i'm talking about. > > > And I don't believe in userland's help here, because for that type of > > messages, the indication should be returned immediately. > > In the very buggy cases, i think, everything just hang. Otherwise > initramfs stuff can deal with it. > > > 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. > > As i'm pretty much in all that text(tty)-mode stuff anyway, maybe after > some time i will propose something klibc/tty based. Mainly a bit of user > interface: split scrolling regions for errors and notifications; flexible > color schemas (keyword highlighting); keyboard events. Of course it will > work in such IDE cases, only if driver is a module.
But what I cannot understand is how you expect userspace to work while the lines are being displayed. If this is just to repaint the screen once everything is up, it is 100% useless. I'm interested in seeing errors _while_ they are happening. Basically, I need no color if the machine boots correctly. Willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
