Re: checkpatch: exclude drivers/staging from if with unnecessary parentheses test

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2018-01-11 at 15:03 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 12:53:54 -0800 Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Greg KH doesn't like this test so exclude the staging directory
> > from the implied --strict only test unless --strict is actually
> > used on the command-line.
> > 
> 
> "doesn't like" is rather vague.  What is the objection, specifically?

Unnecessary parentheses sometimes make code
easier to read for those that don't know C
very well.  i.e.: Greg and maybe others too.

> Also, an example of code which has an "if with unnecessary parentheses"
> would help others understand the decision.

	if ((foo == bar) &&
	    (baz != qux))

where the parentheses around the comparisons are
generically unnecessary as the && is a much higher
precedence than the comparisons.