linux-kernel - Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink)

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:20:36 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add
 a missing dot in prink)

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.
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