linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xillybus: place 'else' on same line as '}'

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:02:18 -0700
From:	Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@...il.com>
To:	Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xillybus: place 'else' on same line as '}'

Eli,

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 09:40:39AM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for this.
> 
> And since I looked at the part in Codingstyle that deals with if-else, I
> found another few mistakes regarding braces around a single statement. The
> rules say, it turns out, that if one of the clauses in an if-else is longer
> than one statement, both clauses should be wrapped with braces. This rule is
> broken in lines 162, 536 and 613 of the same file.
> 

I just looked through CodingStyle, and you are right.  If braces are
used on one branch they should be used on all branches.

Interestingly, checkpatch.pl doesn't warn about these.

> ...

Cheers,
-- 
Jeremiah Mahler
jmmahler@...il.com
http://github.com/jmahler
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