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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: <driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19 v2] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unnecessary braces
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:04:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D8FB53.3050501@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140730134153.GJ4856@mwanda>

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;

-- 
-=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk>        )=-
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-30 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-29 11:58 [PATCH 00/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: tidy up a bit Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 01/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: reformat a load of comments Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 02/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: fix checkpatch line over 80 characters Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 03/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: logical continuations should be on the previous line Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 04/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}' Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 05/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: alignment should match open parenthesis Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 06/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: usleep_range is preferred over udelay Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 07/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unused settling time constants Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 08/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove PCI230_ADC_CONV Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 09/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove PCI230_TEST_BIT() Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 10/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: add whitespace to register values Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 11/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: don't begin line with binary operator Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 12/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: omit '!= 0' from logical expressions Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 13/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unnecessary braces Ian Abbott
2014-07-30  0:34   ` Hartley Sweeten
2014-07-30 11:53   ` [PATCH 13/19 v2] " Ian Abbott
2014-07-30 13:41     ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-30 14:04       ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2014-07-30 14:09         ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-30 14:27           ` Ian Abbott
2014-07-30 16:15             ` Hartley Sweeten
2014-07-30 23:53               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 14/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove some indentation in pci230_ai_check_chanlist() Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 15/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: no need for '&function' Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 16/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: add whitespace to pci230_boards[] Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 17/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: no need to initialize named members to zero Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 18/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: tidy up stuct pci230_private Ian Abbott
2014-07-29 11:58 ` [PATCH 19/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove some unnecessary parentheses Ian Abbott
2014-07-30 11:55   ` [PATCH 19/19 v2] " Ian Abbott
2014-07-30  0:54 ` [PATCH 00/19] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: tidy up a bit Hartley Sweeten
2014-07-30 12:00   ` Ian Abbott

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