> Um, what? Kernel messages are *not* in English.
>
> Take a look at a machine after it is freshly booted. The following
> messages are *not* English:
>
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 0000000000099800 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000099800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000d6000 - 00000000000d8000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000bf6b0000 (usable)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6b0000 - 00000000bf6cc000 (ACPI data)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf6cc000 - 00000000bf700000 (ACPI NVS)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000bf700000 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved)
> [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
>
> Do you really want to turn that into complete English sentences?
Properly it should have a full stop after the table.
> Or how about these?
> [ 15.077264] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
^Subject ^ Verb
> [ 15.077278] TCP reno registered
^ Subject ^Verb
etc
> in some cases, it would make the kernel messages harder to parse by an
> automated log parser.
Not all are sentences but many are including some of your examples, and
they should have full stops therefore.
Alan
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