Re: Colored kernel messages on serial console

> I would just say no
No is fine;  I was just gauging whether I should invest time into this
or not (I pretty much get away with pretending every (hooked up)
device here is, in fact, a VT100).

> it turns grepping the kernel log into a painful exercise to say the least.
No, same as with timestamps, those color sequences don't end up in the log.

> [long color rant that I'm all too used to]
IMHO color is too useful an extra sort-of-dimension to encode information
in to just throw it away.

Thanks for the feedback everybody!