linux-kernel - Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:20:35 +0100
From:	Radoslaw Szkodzinski (AstralStorm) <lkml@...ralstorm.puszkin.org>
To:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:04:16 +0100
Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk> wrote:
> 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.

I thinks it's not the kernel ordering you, it's the developer ordering
the kernel to initialize that variable - presumably, because when it
didn't do that, things broke.

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