Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764595AbXLTWKb (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:10:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758437AbXLTWKN (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:10:13 -0500 Received: from sj-iport-6.cisco.com ([171.71.176.117]:49503 "EHLO sj-iport-6.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756896AbXLTWKL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:10:11 -0500 To: David Miller Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, apw@shadowen.org, joe@perches.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, elendil@planet.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, trivial@kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information References: <1196390128.22120.118.camel@localhost> <20071220162923.GB27885@shadowen.org> <20071220210741.6dc3caf5@the-village.bc.nu> <20071220.135133.262055434.davem@davemloft.net> From: Roland Dreier Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:09:50 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20071220.135133.262055434.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:51:33 -0800 (PST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.20 (linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Dec 2007 22:09:50.0758 (UTC) FILETIME=[0A813460:01C84355] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim2002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 687 Lines: 16 > I think the incorrect grammar and lack of proper capitalization and > puntuation in the kernel messages and our changelog entries is totally > embarassing for a professional software project. But I guess correct grammar and spelling in our mailing list communication is not important to you ;) - R. (In case it's not clear: in standard English, "punctuation" has a 'c', and "X and Y *are* Z" is strongly preferred to "X and Y is Z") -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/