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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: Add braces to do-while statements
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Thomas Jespersen <laumann.thomas@gmail.com>
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        linux-erofs@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Sun, 09 Dec 2018 09:30:02 -0800
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On Sun, 2018-12-09 at 17:20 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2018 at 04:59:00PM +0100, Thomas Jespersen wrote:
> > This fixes warning reported by sparse (with -Wsparse-all).
> 
> Why is sparse warning about this?

Probably because it's the kernel preferred style
to use single statement

	do {
		<foo>;
	} while (<bar>);

over

	do
		<foo>;
	while (<bar>);

by about a 20:1 ratio.