in today's leadership meeting, the question was brought up if we want to normalize the coding style in coreboot to _always_ use braces in if, else and for statements, even if it's just one statement they're wrapping.

The arguments made in favor were:

1. it's more consistent

2. it's safer: you won't accidentally add a statement that is outside the context it's supposed to run in (or even move a statement out into the parent context by inserting another statement)

So instead of:

if (foo)

   bar();

else {

   baz();

   quux();

}

we'd do:

The attendees were generally in favor, but wanted to ask the wider community. The idea of putting it up for a vote was brought up, but we decided to discuss it first (and vote if there's disagreement, after the arguments were exchanged. makes for a clearer ballot, too)
--