On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:51:39 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Jul 24 2007 12:19, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > >>>> if (err) { > >>>> do_something(); > >>>> return -ERR; > >>>> } else { > >>>> do_somthing_else(); > >>>> } > >>> > >>> if (err) { > >>> do_something(); > >>> return -ERR; > >>> } else > >>> do_something_else(); > >> > >> The kool kids on linux-usb-devel largely ended up deciding that the second > >> version looks dorky. > > > >Ok, now if either the preceeding block or following block has {}'s then > >we don't report this block for being one line long. We will miss some > >this way, but hey. > > As per Ingo Molnar [ http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/5/68 ], > all blocks in an if-else 'tree' should be {} if there is at least one > with more than two statements. (And I do not disagree.)
You are actually referring to this commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e659ba4a0d2d471c0d73590f78e1a1b5a1eede48 which did not appear on lkml for review... :( --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/