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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: proscribe do-while without braces.
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 17:59:29 -0700
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Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>, Josh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:42:58 +0200 Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:

> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> > and even if I could, "always use" seems way too strong in this case.
> 
> Besides, how about reorienting the CodingStyle text to the essential?
> 
> (But leave the humorous language in --- the few parts that are inherited
> from old versions of that file, now more and more being buried in dry
> nitpicking.)

If sparse has gone and added a warning for this then it is more than
nitpicking.  Reducing the amount of noise coming out of sparse is useful.