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| author | Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> | 2007-05-08 00:30:34 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 11:15:12 -0700 |
| commit | e659ba4a0d2d471c0d73590f78e1a1b5a1eede48 (patch) | |
| tree | 136df203defc2924d2c29aef9330f4a5650bfb2a /Documentation | |
| parent | 28be5abb400e5e082f5225105fdc69337ec0c0b4 (diff) | |
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CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle index 9069189e78e..e7f5fc6ef20 100644 --- a/Documentation/CodingStyle +++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle @@ -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 |