From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763470AbXLRARS (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:17:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757548AbXLRAQ6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:16:58 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:33953 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757244AbXLRAQ5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:16:57 -0500 Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:10:07 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Parag Warudkar , devzero@web.de, Matt.Domsch@dell.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] be more verbose when probing EDD Message-ID: <20071218001007.2324dbfc@the-village.bc.nu> In-Reply-To: References: <49448787@web.de> <82e4877d0712161159r2572dbbfi15159c66e4b7e33b@mail.gmail.com> <20071216201849.24f7aa5f@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Does printk support escape sequences? The last time I tried > printk("\e[1;35m omg ponies \e[0m"); that did not went too successful. It should handle \r correctly. If not that is easy to fix. Escape codes are bad and should not be used - you may have a serial console and not be on a Linux console