From: "Måns Rullgård" <mans@mansr.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: Printing numbers in parentheses is fine
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 23:55:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xodflrsje.fsf@thrashbarg.mansr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070929223015.7F052236A50@adsl-69-226-248-13.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net>
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.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@mansr.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-29 22:58 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
2007-09-29 22:30 ` David Brownell
2007-09-29 22:51 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 22:55 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
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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