Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:15:10 +0100 (CET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages |
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On Dec 20 2007 18:15, Andrew Morton wrote: > >No-period is a kernel idiom, produces perfectly readable output, I have >never ever heard of anyone expressing the least concern over a lack of dots >at the end of their printks and 91% of kernel code agrees.
Let's check out some real-world messages, i.e. the ones you actually see:
11:12 ichi:~/Coding/linux-2.6_nosov > dmesg | grep '\.$'
[ 16.520364] Total of 1 processors activated (3334.94 BogoMIPS). [ 16.746692] Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization:............................................................................. [ 16.751681] Initializing Device/Processor/Thermal objects by executing _INI methods:. [ 16.761402] Enabling SiS 96x SMBus. [ 16.765700] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 16.768126] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled. [ 16.812932] Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. [ 16.863799] IO window: disabled. [ 16.993286] Machine check exception polling timer started. [ 17.023249] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards... [ 17.484975] libata version 2.21 loaded. [ 23.684850] 0000:00:04.0: Realtek RTL8201 PHY transceiver found at address 1. [ 23.695501] eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xdc00, IRQ 19, 00:0a:e6:98:ed:d7. [ 25.341019] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. [ 63.215338] Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. [ 151.770648] /dev/vmmon[2792]: VMCI: Driver initialized. [ 152.906489] /dev/vmnet: hub 0 does not exist, allocating memory. [ 153.325793] /dev/vmnet: hub 1 does not exist, allocating memory. [ 164.114371] agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0. [ 164.114405] agpgart: SiS delay workaround: giving bridge time to recover. [ 165.319145] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
# vmware fills up dmesg. Shrug. 11:14 ichi:~/Coding/linux-2.6_nosov > dmesg|grep -v vmmon|wc -l 297 11:14 ichi:~/Coding/linux-2.6_nosov > dmesg|grep -v vmmon|grep '\.$' | wc -l 18
So yeah 91% is a good call.
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