linux-kernel - Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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Message-ID: <476BDDA1.4040302@davidnewall.com>
Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 02:07:05 +1030
From:	David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	jengelh@...putergmbh.de, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, joe@...ches.com, 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

David Miller wrote:
> From: David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:13:07 +1030
>> David Miller wrote:
>>     
>>> From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:10:38 +0100 (CET)
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Can we get back to programming?
>>>>         
>> With respect to the vast majority of log messages, nobody confounded by 
>> punctuation is truly trying to analyze a problem!
>>     
>
> And nobody confounded by whitespace and coding style is truly
> interesting in writing properly functioning code!
>   

I supposed you meant "interested."  Proper coding style doesn't make for 
proper code.  Arguably, it aids when reading code, and that's why we 
mostly stick to agreed standards; but it's hard to get worked up over a 
dot at the end of a log message.  In cases where it really does matter, 
we make sure it's right; but demanding that every message meets some 
unilateral idea of what is right is zealotry.
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