svn commit: r238672 - head/sys/dev/sdhci

[Warner Losh]

On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:28 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 03:30:26PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> A> On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 02:07:43PM +0000, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>> A> > Author: glebius
>> A> > Date: Sat Jul 21 14:07:43 2012
>> A> > New Revision: 238672
>> A> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/238672
>> A> >
>> A> > Log:
>> A> >   Fix typo in comment, should be MHz here.
>> A>
>> A> That's nice, but...
>> A>
>> A> > @@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ sdhci_lower_frequency(device_t dev)
>> A> >
>> A> >    /*
>> A> >     * Some SD/MMC cards don't work with the default base
>> A> > -   * clock frequency of 200MHz.  Lower it to 50Hz.
>> A> > +   * clock frequency of 200MHz. Lower it to 50MHz.
>> A>
>> A> ... Why losing 2-space break after a sentence (per what we are generally
>> A> adhering and AFAIR is suggested by Chicago Style Guide)?
>> 
>> Never heard about this rule. Sorry.
> 
>    Actually, English spacing is discouraged in more recent texts; it
> was encouraged during the late 19th century up until the late 20th
> century according to ye great wikipedia [1], but I've read several
> other articles in the past decade that suggest that the English
> spacing convention be completely abolished.
>    FWIW, I'd just follow surrounding style like style(9) suggests. No
> reason for fighting over an extra byte per sentence in a source file
> (unless you consider how much added bandwidth / disk space those
> precious bytes can consume :)...).
> Thanks,
> -Garrett
> 
> 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sentence_spacing#French_and_English_spacing

Double spacing is the one true way I learned how to type in school.  Since the 1980's though, things have changed and many advocate single spaces.  However, that's for folks with fancy variable pitch font and such.  For fixed-witdh fonts, 2 is still preferred in some circles, including ours.

Warner