On 2015/11/19 11:46, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
Actually, some people prefer to put braces when one of the
if/else-if/else cases has multiple lines. You can see
some examples in kernel/sched/core.c: see hrtick_start(),
sched_fork(), free_sched_domain().
In our case, I thought putting braces would align the else-if
and else and make the code look a bit nicer, but I know this
may be just a matter of personal feeling.
In short, unless the maintainer, Paolo for this file, has any
preference, both ways will be accepted.
The reason why i pointed this out is that it is the style documented
in Documentation/CodingStyle:
| Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.
|
| if (condition)
| action();
|
Ah, this is a different thing. For this case, there is a consensus
and checkpatch will complain if we don't obey the rule.
What I explained was:
if (condition) {
line1;
line2; // multiple lines
} else if {
single-line-statement; -- (*1)
} else
single-line-statement; -- (*2)
For (*1) and (*2), especially for (*1), some people put braces.
Actually, Ingo Molnar hated this braces-style too much and blamed
many developers who used this style (include me, that why i was
nervous to see this style :( ).
I think he likes the coding style of kernel/sched/core.c very much,
as you know. Actually that is one reason why I took it as an example.
Let's just choose the way which Paolo prefers for this time, I don't
know which is better.
Thank you,
Takuya
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