Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't warn about extra parentheses in staging/

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2025-01-10 at 08:18 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 10:12:17AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > This "Unnecessary parentheses" warning is disabled for drivers/staging
> > unless the --strict option is used.  Really, we don't want it at all
> > even if the --strict option is used.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
> > ---
> >  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++---
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index fdf07c897471..628aa9e17e91 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -5513,9 +5513,9 @@ sub process {
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  
> > -# check for unnecessary parentheses around comparisons in if uses
> > -# when !drivers/staging or command-line uses --strict
> > -		if (($realfile !~ m@^(?:drivers/staging/)@ || $check_orig) &&
> > +# check for unnecessary parentheses around comparisons
> > +# except in drivers/staging
> > +		if (($realfile !~ m@^(?:drivers/staging/)@) &&
> >  		    $perl_version_ok && defined($stat) &&
> >  		    $stat =~ /(^.\s*if\s*($balanced_parens))/) {
> >  			my $if_stat = $1;
> > -- 
> > 2.45.2
> > 
> 
> Yes!  Thanks for this:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

I have no issue with this.
Andrew, please apply it.