Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:20:36 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       tglx@linutronix.de, trivial@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add
 a missing dot in prink)
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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.
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