On Thursday 20 December 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > The kernel printk messages are sentences.
I'm afraid that I completely and utterly disagree. Kernel messages are _not_ sentences. The vast majority is not well-formed and does not contain any of the elements that are required for a proper sentence. The most kernel messages can be compared to is a rather diverse and sloppy enumeration. And enumerations follow completely different rules than sentences. It can better be characterized as a "semi-random sequence of context-sensitive technical messages". IMHO the existing rule that "Kernel messages do not have to be terminated with a period." is completely justified, though it does need some minor clarification on the cases in which proper punctuation _should_ be followed. -- 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/
