Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:12 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: >> Just a roughly grep: >> # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l >> 6025 >> # grep -r -P --include=*.[ch] '\.\\n' * | wc -l >> 12723 > > Inequivalent. > > Try: > grep -rP --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*\.\\n' * | wc -l > and > grep -rp --include=*.[ch] 'printk.*[^\.]\\n' * | wc -l > > 6k/38k >
My 2nd grep finds out how many strings are terminated with '.'. Those strings may finally pass to prink(). So it doesn't deserve the effort to eliminate these periods, isn't it? Or we can add a check to checkpatch.pl to prevent new ones. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
