Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: remove not necessary braces {} (checkpatch fix)

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Feb 02 2017 - 18:33:19 EST


On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 08:06 +0200, Martin Karamihov wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 08:11 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > ...and clarifying the code for a
> > human reader is much more important than making a
> > file not have any checkpatch warnings.
>
> I agree. I respect the developers' own coding style and believe that
> some things (>80 characters long lines, name conventions, etc) should be
> fixed by themselves (if they want to do that). I selected several TODOs
> with requests for code cleanups and chose a fix in attempt to accomplish
> my task with minimal inconvenience for the maintainers. I failed in my
> first attempts breaking some basic rules, sorry about that.

No, not at all. You did fine for a basic checkpatch cleanup.
I just wanted to tell you to think beyond checkpatch.

cheers, Joe