Re: [PATCH] staging: lustre: lustre: fix all braces issues reported by checkpatch

From: James Simmons
Date: Sat Jul 15 2017 - 19:04:00 EST



> On Sat, 2017-07-15 at 11:39 -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > Cleanup all braces that was reported by checkpatch. The only
> > issue not fixed up is in mdc_lock.c. Removing the braces in
> > the case of mdc_lock.c will break the build.
>
> what checkpatch warning in mdc_locks.c is that?
>
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --terse --nosummary drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c 
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c:590: WARNING: line over 80 characters
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c:600: WARNING: line over 80 characters
> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c:637: WARNING: line over 80 characters

For 4.11-xxx kernels I was seeing

WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
#914: FILE: drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/mdc/mdc_locks.c:914:
+ if (it->it_op & IT_CREAT) {
[...]
+ } else if (it->it_op == IT_OPEN) {
[...]
+ } else {
[...]

Now it doesn't show up.