From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761838AbXLTVvn (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:51:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753993AbXLTVvf (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:51:35 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:55770 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753197AbXLTVve (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:51:34 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:51:33 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071220.135133.262055434.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Cc: apw@shadowen.org, joe@perches.com, lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, elendil@planet.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, trivial@kernel.org, rdunlap@xenotime.net, jschopp@austin.ibm.com Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20071220210741.6dc3caf5@the-village.bc.nu> References: <1196390128.22120.118.camel@localhost> <20071220162923.GB27885@shadowen.org> <20071220210741.6dc3caf5@the-village.bc.nu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Cox Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:07:41 +0000 > The kernel printk messages are sentences. English language sentences end > with a full stop. They are messages printed up for normal human beings to > read and they should therefore be properly written. I totally agree. I think the incorrect grammar and lack of proper capitalization and puntuation in the kernel messages and our changelog entries is totally embarassing for a professional software project. And I'm not talking about cases where someone is not a native speaker and just needs some help to get it right. I'm talking about people who are native speakers and nearly encourage phrase quality and style that borders on teenager "innanet speak" in what we publish to the entire world. Some people just can't be bothered to hold down the shift key when typing in the first letter of a word from time to time, I guess. Laziness is the only reasonable explanation I can come up with. And it's totally ironic (and moronic) because some of these same folks are the ones who get all over people for whitespace and tabbing in the code.