From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, apw@shadowen.org, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, elendil@planet.nl,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
trivial@kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:07:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1198188468.6183.80.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220.135133.262055434.davem@davemloft.net>
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 13:51 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> > The kernel printk messages are sentences. English language sentences end
> > with a full stop. They are messages printed up for normal human beings to
> > read and they should therefore be properly written.
> I totally agree.
> I think the incorrect grammar and lack of proper capitalization and
> puntuation in the kernel messages and our changelog entries is totally
> embarassing for a professional software project.
I agree with the grammar, capitalization, punctuation desires.
I add spelling, intelligibility and consistency to that list.
I believe though that printk messages are not sentences but are
logging statements. Statements do not require full-stops.
Opinions, of course, vary.
cheers, Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 22:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-29 7:35 [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink Li Zefan
2007-11-29 8:58 ` Frans Pop
2007-11-29 9:29 ` Li Zefan
2007-11-29 10:20 ` Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink) Frans Pop
2007-11-29 11:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30 1:12 ` Trailing periods in kernel messages Li Zefan
2007-11-30 1:30 ` Joe Perches
2007-11-30 1:54 ` Li Zefan
2007-11-30 2:35 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-20 16:29 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-12-20 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 21:43 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-20 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-20 22:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 22:22 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-20 23:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-21 15:54 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-12-20 21:51 ` David Miller
2007-12-20 22:07 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-12-20 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 23:14 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-12-21 0:04 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-21 0:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-21 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-21 10:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 10:12 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 13:43 ` David Newall
2007-12-21 14:01 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 15:37 ` David Newall
2007-12-21 11:41 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-21 11:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 16:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-12-22 14:04 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-12-22 20:20 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2007-12-21 12:06 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-21 15:18 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-20 22:09 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-21 1:43 ` Frans Pop
2007-12-21 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-21 3:12 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 10:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 10:21 ` Alan Cox
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