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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:18:39 +0100 From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de> To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de> CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, 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 Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Dec 21 2007 17:56, Herbert Xu wrote: >>As to what is a complete sentence, that is debatable. However, >>typically it would include a subject and a predicate. By this >>rule the following line is not a complete sentence: >> >> [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly >> >>The reason is that it lacks a subject. > > "current offset" is your subject. It's an object, not the subject. The quoted changelog heading is a complete sentence nevertheless, as it is an imperative sentence. Its subject is implied. It could end in a period or in an exclamation mark. But as it's actually a heading, it doesn't have to and probably shouldn't. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== ==-- =-=-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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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