linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/19 v2] staging: comedi: amplc

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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2014 15:04:03 +0100
From:	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	<driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19 v2] staging: comedi: amplc_pci230: remove unnecessary
 braces

On 2014-07-30 14:41, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 12:53:47PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>
>> ---
>> v2: Be less aggressive in brace removal.  Keep them for outer nested
>> 'if's.  Keep them in outer control statements where the inner control
>> statement uses braces.
>
> Really every multi-line indent should have braces for readability.  This
> isn't documented anywhere, but it's normal kernel style and Greg prefers
> it for staging as well but I can't find the URL on google where he
> mentioned that.

With this version of the patch, amplc_pci230.c conforms to that -- as 
long as you don't count comments, or splitting a simple statement across 
multiple lines to fit within 80 columns, e.g.:

			if (foo)
				/* do this */
				bar = baz +
				      qux;

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