On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:19:28 -0800 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:54:11 +0000
> Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Documentation/Coding Style
> > >
> > > Chapter 13: Printing kernel messages
> > >
> > > Kernel messages do not have to be terminated with a period.
> >
> >
> > This piece of the document is wrong. It should also be changed. I've no
> > idea how such a ludicrous statement ever got into the Coding Style but I
> > have never seen it discussed and an archive search suggests it just
> > sneaked in without any kind of approval and discussion the list.
> >
> > Kernel messages are in English. Let us keep it that way. Missing
> > punctuation is equated by many parts of the English speaking world with
> > poor quality, sloppy products and low levels of education. These are not
> > things with which we wish to be associated IMHO.
> >
> > NAK to the patch.
>
> akpm:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24-rc5> grep -r '[^\.]\\n"' . | wc -l
> 105297
> akpm:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24-rc5> grep -r '[\.]\\n"' . | wc -l
> 12743
>
> For the record, I won't be taking any "add period to printk" patches.
IMO if checkpatch contains a check for trailing periods, it should
only be part of the strict/pedantic checks.
But it's not needed.
> akpm:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24-rc5> grep -r '[^\.]\\n"' net | wc -l
> 4978
> akpm:/usr/src/linux-2.6.24-rc5> grep -r '[\.]\\n"' net | wc -l
> 493
>
> Send 'em to Dave!
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~Randy
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