From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
trivial@kernel.org, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:22:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071220222250.GJ27081@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071220215411.183d03c0@the-village.bc.nu>
On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:54:11PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Kernel messages do not have to be terminated with a period.
>
> This piece of the document is wrong. It should also be changed. I've no
> idea how such a ludicrous statement ever got into the Coding Style but I
> have never seen it discussed and an archive search suggests it just
> sneaked in without any kind of approval and discussion the list.
>
> Kernel messages are in English. Let us keep it that way. Missing
> punctuation is equated by many parts of the English speaking world with
> poor quality, sloppy products and low levels of education. These are not
> things with which we wish to be associated IMHO.
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?
Or how about these?
[ 15.069322] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 15.069830] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[ 15.070448] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 9, 2359296 bytes)
[ 15.077264] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[ 15.077278] TCP reno registered
[ 15.086122] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[ 15.846658] Freeing initrd memory: 7114k freed
Again, not sentences, and I don't think making every single printk a
gramatically valid sentence is a good thing. Or even necessary. And
in some cases, it would make the kernel messages harder to parse by an
automated log parser.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-20 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-29 7:35 [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink Li Zefan
2007-11-29 8:58 ` Frans Pop
2007-11-29 9:29 ` Li Zefan
2007-11-29 10:20 ` Trailing periods in kernel messages (was: [PATCH 6/6] tick: add a missing dot in prink) Frans Pop
2007-11-29 11:20 ` Andrew Morton
2007-11-30 1:12 ` Trailing periods in kernel messages Li Zefan
2007-11-30 1:30 ` Joe Perches
2007-11-30 1:54 ` Li Zefan
2007-11-30 2:35 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-20 16:29 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-12-20 21:07 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 21:43 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-20 21:54 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 22:19 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-20 22:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-12-20 23:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 22:22 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2007-12-20 23:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-21 15:54 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-12-20 21:51 ` David Miller
2007-12-20 22:07 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-20 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-20 23:14 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-12-21 0:04 ` Joe Perches
2007-12-21 0:40 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-21 9:56 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-21 10:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 10:12 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 13:43 ` David Newall
2007-12-21 14:01 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 15:37 ` David Newall
2007-12-21 11:41 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-21 11:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 16:01 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-12-22 14:04 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-12-22 20:20 ` Radoslaw Szkodzinski
2007-12-21 12:06 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-21 15:18 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-20 22:09 ` Roland Dreier
2007-12-21 1:43 ` Frans Pop
2007-12-21 2:15 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-21 3:12 ` David Miller
2007-12-21 10:15 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-21 10:21 ` Alan Cox
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