From b218ab0a5af943441e1daa7dc811874ecd409229 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:22:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update CodingStyle use of braces
After commit 38829dc9d7b4 ("Documentation/CodingStyle: flesh out if-else
examples") highlight that if _only_one_ branch of a conditional
statement is a single statement, then braces are to be used on both
branches.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
Documentation/CodingStyle | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index c940239d96781..2b90d328b3ba5 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -166,8 +166,8 @@ if (condition)
else
do_that();
-This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single
-statement. Use braces in both branches.
+This does not apply if only one branch of a conditional statement is a single
+statement; in the latter case use braces in both branches:
if (condition) {
do_this();
--
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