From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
<driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19 v2] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unnecessary braces
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:27:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D900DD.6060006@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140730140914.GK4856@mwanda>
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.
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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
2014-07-30 14:09 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-07-30 14:27 ` Ian Abbott [this message]
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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