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Date:	Fri, 4 Apr 2014 18:17:56 +0300
From:	Kumar Amit Mehta <gmate.amit@...il.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	abbotti@....co.uk, hsweeten@...ionengravers.com, wharms@....de,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: pcl812.c: fixed a coding style
 issue

On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:26:51PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:48:52PM +0300, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:07:07PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 01:05:29PM +0300, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> > > > Fixed a coding style issue. Reported by checkpatch.pl
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It's better if the commit messages are more specific than this.
> > 
> > So, should I resend the patch with a more appropriate commit message ?
> 
> [PATCH] staging: comedi: drivers: pcl812.c: add curly braces for checkpatch
> 
> Kernel style is that if one side of the if else statement gets has curly
> braces then both side should have them.

Dan, 

What Walter mentioned also makes sense, So shouldn't it be something
like this:

[amit@...alhost linux-next]$ git diff
diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcl812.c
b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcl812.c
index 160eac8..552b696 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcl812.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcl812.c
@@ -803,16 +803,14 @@ static int pcl812_ai_cmd(struct comedi_device
*dev, struct comedi_subdevice *s)
 
        pcl812_ai_set_chan_range(dev, cmd->chanlist[0], 1);
 
+       devpriv->ai_dma = 0;
        if (devpriv->dma) {     /*  check if we can use DMA transfer */
                devpriv->ai_dma = 1;
                for (i = 1; i < cmd->chanlist_len; i++)
                        if (cmd->chanlist[0] != cmd->chanlist[i]) {
                                /*  we cann't use DMA :-( */
-                               devpriv->ai_dma = 0;
                                break;
                        }
-       } else
-               devpriv->ai_dma = 0;
 
        devpriv->ai_act_scan = 0;
        devpriv->ai_poll_ptr = 0;


Thanks,
Kumar
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