Re: [PATCH] ipv4: remove parentheses in return statement

From: Jean Sacren <redacted>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 14:23:50 -0600

To illustrate, the patch merely changes

	return (A);

to

	return A;

Life is not black and white my friend, there are shades
of gray.  I feel bad for you if you read coding style rules
in a %100 literal sense with no room for interpretation.

People add extra parenthesis to add clarity, so you are
entirely misrepresenting these cases.

This was not a simple case of:

	return (A);

but more like something that looks as:

	return ((A & B) | (C ^ D));

and that is perfectly fine.