Re: proposing patches (was: Colored kernel messages on serial console)

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

tls%panix.com@localhost (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:

>I actually thought the "sysctl for bytes to be prepended; sysctl for bytes to
>be postpended" proposal was rather clever.  I wouldn't object to that going
>in; I'd never set it, but it should default to unset.

Agreed. Also make the default a kernel option so that you could build
a custom kernel that treats early output the same.

We could also integrate it with the timestamp and possibly other
output like a printf-like string.