On 08/10/2017 04:03 PM, Stephan Mueller wrote:

Is there a style requirement for that? checkpatch.pl does not complain. I
thought that one liners in a conditional should not have braces?

Linux coding style requires braces in both branches when you have a
branch with a statement and the other with multiple statements.

Checkpatch complains about this when you run it with --strict option.

Cheers,
ta