Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754100AbXLUPhV (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:37:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752451AbXLUPhH (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:37:07 -0500 Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:38892 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752562AbXLUPhG (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:37:06 -0500 Message-ID: <476BDDA1.4040302@davidnewall.com> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:07:05 +1030 From: David Newall User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: jengelh@computergmbh.de, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, joe@perches.com, 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: <20071221.021236.267832858.davem@davemloft.net> <476BC2EB.3060000@davidnewall.com> <20071221.060125.165132180.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20071221.060125.165132180.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1216 Lines: 30 David Miller wrote: > From: David Newall > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:13:07 +1030 >> David Miller wrote: >> >>> From: Jan Engelhardt >>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:10:38 +0100 (CET) >>> >>> >>>> Can we get back to programming? >>>> >> With respect to the vast majority of log messages, nobody confounded by >> punctuation is truly trying to analyze a problem! >> > > And nobody confounded by whitespace and coding style is truly > interesting in writing properly functioning code! > I supposed you meant "interested." Proper coding style doesn't make for proper code. Arguably, it aids when reading code, and that's why we mostly stick to agreed standards; but it's hard to get worked up over a dot at the end of a log message. In cases where it really does matter, we make sure it's right; but demanding that every message meets some unilateral idea of what is right is zealotry. -- 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/