From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, khali@linux-fr.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 13:13:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070929131317.6a8609dc.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070929185306.183D72399D7@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net>
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:53:06 -0700 David Brownell wrote:
> > From randy.dunlap@oracle.com Sat Sep 29 11:40:17 2007
> >
> > Let's kill it, please. (i.e., ACK)
>
> But ... why? What value could needless parens provide?
Who says that needless parens could provide value?
> "Yet Another Subtle And Hard To Fix Source Of Bloat" is
> not a plus.
ISTM that we agree.
> I'd kind of think a change like this should have some
> positive motivation.
"Me, I agree that numbers in parens don't usually make sense for
kernel messages."
It's too trivial to be included in CodingStyle.
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-29 10:25 Jean Delvare
2007-09-29 10:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29 17:19 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 18:29 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 18:53 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 20:13 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2007-09-29 22:30 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 22:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 22:55 ` Måns Rullgård
2007-09-30 10:28 ` Jean Delvare
2007-09-30 2:18 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-30 10:11 ` Jean Delvare
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