Re: highlighted kernel messages on serial console

While playing around with the prefix/suffix concept, essentially after
the first attempt with prefix 'foo' and suffix 'bar', and getting:
| foo[timestamp] kernel message
| bar
I realized that kernel messages are already suffixed, by newlines, so
that would there be a reasonable choice for the default value of the
suffix.  Or so my initial thought was.

Of course, the concept of kernel messages being produced in the form
of lines is an assumption that reaches into pretty much any source file
in the form of printf("...\n").

Now, despite my DS9k operating out of spec unless kernel messages are
terminated by "</krnlmsg>" base64'ed and beeped out in Morse code on
the terminal fog horn -- where newlines really just get in the way of
the 45-degree rotated console displaying lines holographically in the
Z direction -- removing every \n all throughout the kernel doesn't seem
reasonable.  Besides, it would cause problems with messages that are
produced from multiple printfs).

What's everybody's thoughts on that matter?  Live with the fact that the
suffix will be, so to speak, prefixed by \n?  Or scan what is being
printed in order to insert the suffix before the newline?  Any other
approaches or ideas that come to mind?