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Date:	Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:55:01 +0100
From:	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine

David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> 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.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mans@...sr.com

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