linux-kernel - Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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Message-ID: <474F6372.70705@cn.fujitsu.com>
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

:)
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