Re: latest checkpatch

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

> > it's perfectly legitimate, in fact more robust. So if checkpatch.pl 
> > wants to make any noise about such constructs it should warn about 
> > the _lack_ of curly braces in every multi-line condition block 
> > _except_ the only safe single-line statement:
> > 
> > 	if (x)
> > 		y();
> 
> Indeed.  We should probabally do more on the indentation checks in
> general.  The current direct check for:
> 
> 	if (foo);
> 		bar();
> 
> Could probabally be generalised to look for this kind of error:
> 
> 	if (foo)
> 		bar();
> 		baz();
> 	one();

detecting that would be awesome - it's often the sign of a real bug 
because the intent is often to have bar() and baz() in the conditional 
block.

	Ingo
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