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

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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0g3iJ+QL=mL0a8cfoN9qT_FgM_j803ZWgcYn2AOpCN6AQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:31:11 +0100
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] ACPI: SPCR: Amend indentation

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 1:24 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> 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@...ux.intel.com> 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.