Documentation/CodingStyle: flesh out if-else examples
There is a missing case for "Chapter 3: Placing Braces and Spaces". We
often know we should not use braces where a single statement. The first
case is:
if (condition)
action();
Another case is:
if (condition)
do_this();
else
do_that();
However, I can not find a description of the second case.
Signed-off-by: Harry Wei <[email protected]>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 1cd3478..58b0bf9 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@
if (condition)
action();
+and
+
+if (condition)
+ do_this();
+else
+ do_that();
+
This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single
statement. Use braces in both branches.