Re: [PATCH 02/15] mm: page_alloc: align arguments to parenthesis

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2017-03-16 at 09:02 +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 15-03-17 18:59:59, Joe Perches wrote:
> > whitespace changes only - git diff -w shows no difference
> 
> what is the point of this whitespace noise? Does it help readability?

Yes.  Consistency helps.

> To be honest I do not think so.

Opinions always vary.

>  Such a patch would make sense only if it
> was a part of a larger series where other patches would actually do
> something useful.

Do please read the 0/n introduction to this series.

And do remember to always strip the useless stuff you
unnecessarily quoted too.  66kb in this case.

There was a separate patch series 0/3 that actually did
the more useful stuff.

This patch series was purposely separated.