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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:04:16 +0100 From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) writes: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 12:55:16PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> 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. > > That still looks like an incomplete sentence, although orders are often > given in that form. Something like these seem more like complete > sentences: It's simply the imperative. You can make perfectly good English sentences in just one word -- "Eat." is an example. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_mood. It is a bit of a mystery why the kernel is ordering me to initialize the current offset of xfs_file_readdir though. I don't know how to do that, so I guess it's lucky that I don't use XFS. Who knows what would happen if I didn't correctly initialize xfs_file_readdir. /Benny -- 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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