From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, torvalds@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle fixes for drm_agpsupport
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:15:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F37CF4E.3010605@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030811170425.GA4418@work.bitmover.com>
Larry McVoy wrote:
> That ought to be balanced with "don't screw up the revision history, people
> use it". It's one thing to reformat code that is unreadable, for the most
> part this code didn't come close to unreadable.
Granted.
> I wasn't suggesting that. I was saying
>
> if (expr) statement; // OK
The test and the statement run together visually, which is it is
preferred to put the statement on the following line.
> The exception I was saying was reasonable is if you are doing something like
>
> if (!pointer) return (-EINVAL);
>
> Short, sweet, readable, no worries.
return is not a function ;-)
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-11 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-11 15:59 [PATCH] CodingStyle fixes for drm_agpsupport davej
2003-08-11 16:40 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-11 16:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-11 17:04 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-11 17:15 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-11 17:23 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-11 17:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-11 17:59 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-11 18:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-11 19:09 ` [Dri-devel] " Philip Brown
2003-08-12 12:07 ` Peter "Firefly" Lund
2003-08-12 10:00 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-08-13 19:44 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-14 14:21 ` Eli Carter
2003-08-14 14:47 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-14 15:18 ` Eli Carter
2003-08-14 15:28 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-14 19:01 ` Gene Heskett
2003-08-14 18:43 ` [Dri-devel] " Philip Brown
2003-08-14 18:59 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-14 20:16 ` Larry McVoy
2003-08-14 20:21 ` Eli Carter
2003-08-14 20:22 ` Larry McVoy
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2003-08-12 9:52 ` Ed Cogburn
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