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Message-ID: <yw1xodflrsje.fsf@thrashbarg.mansr.com> 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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