Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:12:18 +0800 | From | Li Zefan <> | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:20:18 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> wrote: > >> Well, for one it needlessly increases the size of log files. >> It also IMO just looks weird to have a trailing period only for some >> messages and it certainly is completely inappropriate for messages like: > > I'll confess to stealthily deleting some of those periods when nobody is looking. > I don't find them to have any value and they do have some cost, including screen > real estate at the source-code level. > >
Just a roughly grep:
# grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l 6025 # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] '\.\\n' * | wc -l 12723
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