Re: [PATCH 13/19 v2] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unnecessary braces

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 04:15:23PM +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2014 7:28 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> > On 2014-07-30 15:09, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 03:04:03PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> >>> On 2014-07-30 14:41, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >>>> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:53:47PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> >>>>> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> >>>>> ---
> >>>>> v2: Be less aggressive in brace removal.  Keep them for outer nested
> >>>>> 'if's.  Keep them in outer control statements where the inner control
> >>>>> statement uses braces.
> >>>>
> >>>> Really every multi-line indent should have braces for readability.  This
> >>>> isn't documented anywhere, but it's normal kernel style and Greg prefers
> >>>> it for staging as well but I can't find the URL on google where he
> >>>> mentioned that.
> >>>
> >>> With this version of the patch, amplc_pci230.c conforms to that --
> >>> as long as you don't count comments, or splitting a simple statement
> >>> across multiple lines to fit within 80 columns, e.g.:
> >>>
> >>> 			if (foo)
> >>> 				/* do this */
> >>> 				bar = baz +
> >>> 				      qux;
> >>
> >> Heh...  I am counting comments and broken lines, though.  It's not a
> >> totally strict rule and it's especially not strict for broken lines.
> >> But we would prefer braces in those situations.
> >
> > If necessary, patches 13 and 19 can be dropped entirely.
> 
> That might be best for now.
> 
> The rest of the series applies fine with them dropped.

Now dropped :)