linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: zip: Remove unnecessary parentheses

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Date:   Wed, 28 Mar 2018 11:11:16 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Varsha Rao <rvarsha016@...il.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     cocci <cocci@...teme.lip6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crypto: cavium: zip: Remove unnecessary parentheses

On Wed, 2018-03-28 at 23:27 +0530, Varsha Rao wrote:
> This patch fixes the clang warning of extraneous parentheses, with the
> following coccinelle script.
> 
> @@
> identifier i;
> constant c;
> @@
> (
> -((i == c))
> +i == c
> > 
> 
> -((i <= c))
> +i <= c

Why just the "==" and "<=" cases?
Why not "<", ">" and ">=" too?

Why not expression instead of constant?