Re: [PATCH v10 07/33] mm: Add folio_get

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 27 May 2021 09:10:31 +0100 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 03:24:26PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 01:56:46PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> > > Nitpick: function names in subject should IMHO also end with (). But not a
> > > reason for resend all patches that don't...
> > 
> > Hm, I thought it was preferred to not do that.  I can fix it
> > easily enough when I go through and add the R-b.
> 
> I hate the pointless ().  Some maintainers insist on it.   No matter
> what you do you'll make some folks happy and others not.

I prefer it.  It succinctly says "this identifier is a function" which
is useful info.

I get many changelogs saying "the foo function" or "the function foo". 
"foo()" is better.