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From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
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Subject: Re: A beautiful dmesg! Maybe one day?
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If you want to "pretty up" dmesg, then submit the patches.  You can start 
with machdep.c line 442.  Scrounge around in the code for "printf" 
statements and change the text to anything you want.  Then submit it for 
inclusion in the next release.

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
The University of Texas at Dallas
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http://www.utdallas.edu