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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>,
	Will Walsh <iron.will.walsh@gmail.com>,
	Vaibhav Agarwal <vaibhav.sr@gmail.com>,
	Mark Greer <mgreer@animalcreek.com>,
	Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: remove unnecessary parentheses
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2025 08:50:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2025010932-rice-landed-2b96@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dcf6ec9f-39f2-4729-9250-14eb4d8d2adb@stanley.mountain>

On Thu, Jan 09, 2025 at 10:45:50AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2025 at 08:56:50PM -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> > On 1/8/25 6:36 PM, Will Walsh wrote:
> > > Unnecessary parentheses in boolean comparisons make it harder to read.
> > > 
> > > Removed the extra parentheses on line 305 for code readability.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Will Walsh <iron.will.walsh@gmail.com>
> > 
> > I'm not sure this makes a big difference in readability but I
> > personally avoid extra parentheses unless adding them makes a
> > compiler warning go away.
> 
> It's not a compiler warning, it checkpatch.

And it is a checkpatch warning that I HATE and keep rejecting, here's
where I did so yesterday:
	https://lore.kernel.org/r/2025010738-gong-rewind-2583@gregkh

Will, sorry, but I don't want to take this.

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2025-01-09  7:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-01-09  0:36 [PATCH] staging: greybus: remove unnecessary parentheses Will Walsh
2025-01-09  2:56 ` Alex Elder
2025-01-09  7:45   ` Dan Carpenter
2025-01-09  7:50     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2025-01-09 14:54     ` Alex Elder

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