Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I do not believe "opinions" are relevant here. Relevant would be cites > from respected style guides (Fowlers, Oxford Guide To Style et al.) to > show they do not need a full stop. > > I've not found one, but I am open to references.
Well from where I come from, full stops are only used for complete sentences. For example, http://www.ballarat.edu.au/aasp/student/learning_support/generalguide/ch01s05s02.shtml As to what is a complete sentence, that is debatable. However, typically it would include a subject and a predicate. By this rule the following line is not a complete sentence: [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly The reason is that it lacks a subject. Of course I would completely agree that some kernel messages are complete sentences and should have a full stop. However, it is not clear to me that this is the case for all or even most kernel printk messages. Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt -- 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/