Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754550AbXLUPT1 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:19:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752151AbXLUPTT (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:19:19 -0500 Received: from hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de ([141.43.120.68]:54231 "EHLO hp3.statik.tu-cottbus.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751029AbXLUPTT (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:19:19 -0500 Message-ID: <476BD94F.6060002@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:18:39 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt CC: Herbert Xu , Alan Cox , 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 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 999 Lines: 28 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 21 2007 17:56, Herbert Xu wrote: >>As to what is a complete sentence, that is debatable. However, >>typically it would include a subject and a predicate. By this >>rule the following line is not a complete sentence: >> >> [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly >> >>The reason is that it lacks a subject. > > "current offset" is your subject. It's an object, not the subject. The quoted changelog heading is a complete sentence nevertheless, as it is an imperative sentence. Its subject is implied. It could end in a period or in an exclamation mark. But as it's actually a heading, it doesn't have to and probably shouldn't. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== ==-- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/