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SubjectRe: Trailing periods in kernel messages
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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