From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759803AbXLULzk (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:55:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759392AbXLULzT (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:55:19 -0500 Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:48914 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753255AbXLULzS (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:55:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:55:16 +0100 (CET) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Herbert Xu cc: 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 In-Reply-To: <20071221114103.GA801@gondor.apana.org.au> Message-ID: References: <20071221114103.GA801@gondor.apana.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Dec 21 2007 19:41, Herbert Xu wrote: >On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> > [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly >> > >> >The reason is that it lacks a subject. >> >> "current offset" is your subject. > >In my school we were taught that "current offset" is part of the >predicate as opposed to the subject. This can be seen from the >fact that "offset" is singular while "initialise" did not take >on its third-person singular form of "initialises". 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. ;-)