Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:12 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> Just a roughly grep:
>> # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l
>> 6025
>> # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] '\.\\n' * | wc -l
>> 12723
> 
> Inequivalent.
> 
> Try:
> 	grep -rP --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l
> and
> 	grep -rp --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*[^\.]\\n' * | wc -l
> 
> 6k/38k
> 

My 2nd grep finds out how many strings are terminated with '.'.
Those strings may finally pass to prink().

So it doesn't deserve the effort to eliminate these periods, isn't it?
Or we can add a check to checkpatch.pl to prevent new ones.
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