Commit e659ba4a authored by Oliver Neukum's avatar Oliver Neukum Committed by Linus Torvalds
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CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces 



Signed-off-by: default avatarOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 28be5abb

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@@ -160,6 +160,21 @@ supply of new-lines on your screen is not a renewable resource (think 
25-line terminal screens here), you have more empty lines to put

comments on.



Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.



if (condition)

	action();



This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single

statement. Use braces in both branches.



if (condition) {

	do_this();

	do_that();

} else {

	otherwise();

}



		3.1:  Spaces



Linux kernel style for use of spaces depends (mostly) on