Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754904AbXLUKPZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:15:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750938AbXLUKPO (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:15:14 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:57081 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750824AbXLUKPM (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:15:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:15:10 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Andrew Morton cc: Frans Pop , Alan Cox , Andy Whitcroft , Joe Perches , Li Zefan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, trivial@kernel.org, Randy Dunlap , Joel Schopp Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages In-Reply-To: <20071220181532.f31cdcaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: References: <474E6BD0.20103@cn.fujitsu.com> <20071220162923.GB27885@shadowen.org> <20071220210741.6dc3caf5@the-village.bc.nu> <200712210243.35240.elendil@planet.nl> <20071220181532.f31cdcaa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2319 Lines: 45 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. -- 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/