Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:56:40 +0800 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > > I do not believe "opinions" are relevant here. Relevant would be cites > from respected style guides (Fowlers, Oxford Guide To Style et al.) to > show they do not need a full stop. > > I've not found one, but I am open to references.
Well from where I come from, full stops are only used for complete sentences. For example,
http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/ch01s05s02.shtml
As to what is a complete sentence, that is debatable. However, typically it would include a subject and a predicate. By this rule the following line is not a complete sentence:
[XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly
The reason is that it lacks a subject.
Of course I would completely agree that some kernel messages are complete sentences and should have a full stop. However, it is not clear to me that this is the case for all or even most kernel printk messages.
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