Re: Trailing periods in kernel messages

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Fri Dec 21 2007 - 06:41:59 EST


On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:10:38AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> > [XFS] Initialise current offset in xfs_file_readdir correctly
> >
> >The reason is that it lacks a subject.
>
> "current offset" is your subject.

In my school we were taught that "current offset" is part of the
predicate as opposed to the subject. This can be seen from the
fact that "offset" is singular while "initialise" did not take
on its third-person singular form of "initialises".

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