[PATCH RFC] Codingstyle: allow omitting braces for all single statement branches

[Uwe Kleine-KÃnig]

Grepping for "} else$" in v2.6.32-rc8 yields 6440 hits.  So this seems
to be common practice and should be allowed.  checkpatch doesn't warn
about both variants.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-KÃnig <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@xxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Martin Olsson <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
 Documentation/CodingStyle |   26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/CodingStyle b/Documentation/CodingStyle
index 8bb3723..84563c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingStyle
+++ b/Documentation/CodingStyle
@@ -168,15 +168,23 @@ Do not unnecessarily use braces where a single statement will do.
 if (condition)
 	action();
 
-This does not apply if one branch of a conditional statement is a single
-statement. Use braces in both branches.
-
-if (condition) {
-	do_this();
-	do_that();
-} else {
-	otherwise();
-}
+If not all branches of a conditional statement are single statements you might
+use braces for both branches.
+
+	if (condition) {
+		do_this();
+		do_that();
+	} else
+		otherwise();
+
+or
+
+	if (condition) {
+		do_this();
+		do_that();
+	} else {
+		otherwise();
+	}
 
 		3.1:  Spaces
 
-- 
1.6.5.2

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