linux-kernel - Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:55:16 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, joe@...ches.com,
	davem@...emloft.net, apw@...dowen.org, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, elendil@...net.nl,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	trivial@...nel.org, rdunlap@...otime.net, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages


On Dec 21 2007 19:41, Herbert Xu wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>
>> >	[XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly
>> >
>> >The reason is that it lacks a subject.
>> 
>> "current offset" is your subject.
>
>In my school we were taught that "current offset" is part of the
>predicate as opposed to the subject.  This can be seen from the
>fact that "offset" is singular while "initialise" did not take
>on its third-person singular form of "initialises".

o_O  I better continue believing it is the subject. Because with
one extra word at the front, you can make this a "complete sentence":

	Please initialize [the] current offset in xfs_file_readdir.

;-)
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