linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:20:35 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

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... :(

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~Randy
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