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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:12:18 +0800 From: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> CC: Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, trivial@...nel.org Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:20:18 +0100 Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl> wrote: > >> Well, for one it needlessly increases the size of log files. >> It also IMO just looks weird to have a trailing period only for some >> messages and it certainly is completely inappropriate for messages like: > > I'll confess to stealthily deleting some of those periods when nobody is looking. > I don't find them to have any value and they do have some cost, including screen > real estate at the source-code level. > > Just a roughly grep: # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l 6025 # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] '\.\\n' * | wc -l 12723 :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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