From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753932AbXLUQBd (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751204AbXLUQB0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:26 -0500 Received: from caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca ([129.97.134.17]:49214 "EHLO caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbXLUQBZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:01:25 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Herbert Xu , Alan Cox , joe@perches.com, davem@davemloft.net, apw@shadowen.org, 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 Message-ID: <20071221160125.GJ2310@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> References: <20071221114103.GA801@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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: You should initialize the current offset in xfs_file_readdir. The driver will now initialize the current offset in xfs_file_readdir. Where you or the driver is the subject. Then it makes sense. Of course one would tend to assume the driver is just giving status reports so it implicitly is the subject doing the things, even though there is no actual sentence saying so. It is more of the driver saying: this driver is: initializing the current offset in xfs_file_readdir doing some other stuff then doing some different stuff etc -- Len Sorensen