Re: [PATCH 0/30] return statement cleanup - kill pointless parentheses (fwd)

[Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml-poRShpWsAiE@public.gmane.org>]

Brown, Len wrote:
>  
> 
>>Parenthesis around returns statements were driving me crazy for quite
>>a long time -- return is not a function and I do not think it should
>>look as one. Could we get this applied?
> 
> 
> K&R-2 says "Parentheses are often used around the expression, but they
> are optional."
> 
> Groping around the kernel, it seems that about 10% of return statements
> use these optional parentheses.
> 
> If we modify these, are we going to modify the other 10,000 instances
> or is that what your other 29 patches do?
> 
I had originally planned to do just that, but people on LKML responded 
with "only submit such cleanups via maintainers who actually want them", 
so I gave up on most of it again and just created this one patch for 
Pavel when he asked for it.

-- 
Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml-poRShpWsAiE@public.gmane.org>



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