From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [OT] style-curiosity
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:31:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010302153117.A2690@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010302120712.C4416@werewolf.able.es> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103021223160.1338-100000@penguin.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103021223160.1338-100000@penguin.homenet>; from tigran@veritas.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 13:24:20 +0100
On 03.02 Tigran Aivazian wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
> > for (c = misc_list.next; c != &misc_list; c = c->next)
> > {
> > if (c->minor == misc->minor) {
> > up(&misc_sem);
> > return -EBUSY;
> > }
> > }
>
> the above is good but the below is better:
>
> for (c = misc_list.next; c != &misc_list; c = c->next)
> if (c->minor == misc->minor) {
> up(&misc_sem);
> return -EBUSY;
> }
>
I have suffered so many bugs coming from bad grouping that I always put
the braces even if they are not needed.
--
J.A. Magallon $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es $> more beer
Linux werewolf 2.4.2-ac8 #2 SMP Fri Mar 2 12:12:45 CET 2001 i686
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[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103021010570.1338-100000@penguin.homenet>
2001-03-02 10:55 ` [patch-2.4.2-ac8] misc_register() fix (was Re: Linux 2.4.2ac8 Tigran Aivazian
2001-03-02 11:03 ` Philipp Rumpf
2001-03-02 11:07 ` [OT] style-curiosity J . A . Magallon
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103021223160.1338-100000@penguin.homenet>
2001-03-02 14:31 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
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