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

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Date:   Mon, 10 Dec 2018 01:42:18 +0100
From:   Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        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 08:40:29PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

To my own surprise, it's effectively sparse that complained:
	warning: do-while statement is not a compound statement

with the flag -Wsparse-all (or -Wdo-while).
But -Wsparse-all is not a flag normally used for the kernel
(or normaly used on anything at all).

-- Luc