Re: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a do-while statement.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 21:08:22 EST


On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:44:29 -0200 Thiago Farina <tfransosi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > It is somewhat unconventional coding style and it'd be good if
> > checkpatch were to warn so that we don't _add_ such things to the tree.
> >
> > But IMO it's such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the tree, it's not
> > really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.
>
> Yeah, much noise for a small thing. I will not fix more warnings like
> this in future.

I'd be OK with fixing things like this as part of a larger
"fs/binfmt_elf.c: coding-style fixes" or "fs/*elf.c: ...", etc. One
big hit. It's the little dribble of one-line fixes which I'd prefer to
avoid.

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