From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
trivial@kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:43:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200712210243.35240.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220210741.6dc3caf5@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote:
> The kernel printk messages are sentences.
I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_
sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of
the elements that are required for a proper sentence.
The most kernel messages can be compared to is a rather diverse and sloppy
enumeration. And enumerations follow completely different rules than
sentences. It can better be characterized as a "semi-random sequence of
context-sensitive technical messages".
IMHO the existing rule that "Kernel messages do not have to be terminated
with a period." is completely justified, though it does need some minor
clarification on the cases in which proper punctuation _should_ be
followed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 1:43 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
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 [this message]
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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