Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757464AbXI2W60 (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:58:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756370AbXI2W6T (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:58:19 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34239 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756219AbXI2W6S (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Sep 2007 18:58:18 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20070929122530.5c45f743@hyperion.delvare> <20070929035156.cd6fe860.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070929112928.56a04641.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070929185306.183D72399D7@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> <20070929131317.6a8609dc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <20070929223015.7F052236A50@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: agrajag.inprovide.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) XEmacs/21.4.20 (Double Solitaire, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jc5qHpkzju+0ewhlSmg3beAQA+U= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 832 Lines: 19 David Brownell writes: >> > > Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK) >> > >> > But ... why? What value could needless parens provide? >> >> Who says that needless parens could provide value? > > Jean, which is why he submitted the patch. > You, implicitly, by acking a patch saying those parens are bad. > But not me ... I don't think this patch is merge-worthy. Would also add rules like "don't put parens around the word device" etc? There are countless silly things one could do, and we can't explicitly prohibit all of them. -- M?ns Rullg?rd mans@mansr.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/