Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

[David Newall]

David Miller wrote:
> From: David Newall <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:13:07 +1030
> > David Miller wrote:
> >     
> > > From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:10:38 +0100 (CET)
> > >   
> > >       
> > > > Can we get back to programming?
> > > >         
> > With respect to the vast majority of log messages, nobody confounded by 
> > punctuation is truly trying to analyze a problem!
> >     
>
> And nobody confounded by whitespace and coding style is truly
> interesting in writing properly functioning code!
>   

I supposed you meant "interested."  Proper coding style doesn't make for 
proper code.  Arguably, it aids when reading code, and that's why we 
mostly stick to agreed standards; but it's hard to get worked up over a 
dot at the end of a log message.  In cases where it really does matter, 
we make sure it's right; but demanding that every message meets some 
unilateral idea of what is right is zealotry.
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