Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

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On Jul 24 2007 12:19, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>>>> if (err) {
>>>>     do_something();
>>>>     return -ERR;
>>>> } else {
>>>>     do_somthing_else();
>>>> }
>>>
>>> 	if (err) {
>>> 		do_something();
>>> 		return -ERR;
>>> 	} else
>>> 		do_something_else();
>> 
>> The kool kids on linux-usb-devel largely ended up deciding that the second
>> version looks dorky.
>
>Ok, now if either the preceeding block or following block has {}'s then
>we don't report this block for being one line long.  We will miss some
>this way, but hey.

As per Ingo Molnar [ http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/9/5/68 ],
all blocks in an if-else 'tree' should be {} if there is at least one
with more than two statements. (And I do not disagree.)


	Jan
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