linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: Add braces to do-while statements

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Date:   Sun, 9 Dec 2018 20:40:29 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Thomas Jespersen <laumann.thomas@...il.com>, gaoxiang25@...wei.com,
        yuchao0@...wei.com, linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: Add braces to do-while statements

On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 09:27:01AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-12-09 at 17:20 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Thomas Jespersen wrote:
> > > This fixes warning reported by sparse (with -Wsparse-all).
> > 
> > Why is sparse warning about this?
> 
> Probably because it's the kernel preferred style
> to use single statement
> 
> 	do {
> 		<foo>;
> 	} while (<bar>);
> 
> over
> 
> by about a 20:1 ratio.

Sparse is spitting out coding style complaints now?