Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] ACPI: SPCR: Amend indentation

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Mar 23 2023 - 16:31:33 EST


On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:24 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 07:50:55PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 11:26 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > 2) Remove double spaces for consistency.
> >
> > I don't quite agree with this.
> >
> > Double spaces after a period are recognized as end-of-sentence markers
> > by some editors (notably vi), so if they have been used intentionally,
> > I see no reason to replace them.
>
> For the sake of consistency. There places in very same file which do not
> follow this. I can invert and add a space to the rest. Do you prefer that?

Not really. I just don't think that this is worth the churn.

> The reasoning will be kept the same, though.

Is the lack of consistency in this particular respect really an issue?

I guess you can argue that if there are mixed sentence ending styles
in one and the same comment, it is better to make them consistent,
which I can agree with. Otherwise I'm not convinced.