On 2011-09-21 10:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 10:04:30AM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> And apart from being incorrect, was it worth it to save one line? (Most
>> of the closing braces were replaced by blank lines.  Personally, I'd
>> rather keep the braces as it makes code changes less fragile.)
> 
> It's a kernel style thing.

Yes, I understand the reason for this style is to save vertical space
(and I do agree with most of CodingStyle), but since the patch mostly
replaced "closing brace lines" with "blank lines" it was hardly in the
spirit of that particular coding style rule!

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