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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a do-while statement.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:07:52 -0800
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:44:29 -0200 Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:

> > It is somewhat unconventional coding style and it'd be good if
> > checkpatch were to warn so that we don't _add_ such things to the tree.
> >
> > But IMO it's such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the tree, it's not
> > really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.
> 
> Yeah, much noise for a small thing. I will not fix more warnings like
> this in future.

I'd be OK with fixing things like this as part of a larger
"fs/binfmt_elf.c: coding-style fixes" or "fs/*elf.c: ...", etc.  One
big hit.  It's the little dribble of one-line fixes which I'd prefer to
avoid.