Re: PATCH, RFC: 2.6 Documentation/Codingstyle

[vda]

On Friday 13 February 2004 14:37, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
> > 126MB LOWMEM available
> > Detected 1196.031 MHz processor
> > Intel machine check architecture supported
> > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>
> In your post only the above could be considered sentences and even then
> most are really too short, or end with numerals or acronyms which make
> dots look stupid.  Personally I'd think the "Intel machine check
> architecture supported." message looks better with a period and I'd leave
> all the rest alone.  Nevertheless, all 5 of the above could possibly end
> with periods, the rest never.

If we adopt this, 'what is a sentence and what is not'
will be debated again and again at lkml. For
each particular sentence. Do you want that? ;)

OTOH 'no trailing dots in logs' rule is simple and not
too ugly for any log message.
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vda
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