Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:41:03 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, joe@perches.com, davem@davemloft.net,
       apw@shadowen.org, 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
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On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> >	[XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly
> >
> >The reason is that it lacks a subject.
> 
> "current offset" is your subject.

In my school we were taught that "current offset" is part of the
predicate as opposed to the subject.  This can be seen from the
fact that "offset" is singular while "initialise" did not take
on its third-person singular form of "initialises".

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