checkpatch: add --strict check for ifs with unnecessary parentheses
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Fri, 8 Sep 2017 23:16:01 +0000 (16:16 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Sat, 9 Sep 2017 01:26:50 +0000 (18:26 -0700)
commit63b7c73ec86b8c73560d22c7552bc6f47f0b8da9
treefdcc058c6c373480df2e372de0a6e52ae7380a59
parentafdb05e9d61905220f09268535235288e6ba3a16
checkpatch: add --strict check for ifs with unnecessary parentheses

An if statement test like
if ((foo == bar) && (baz != qux))
can arguably be better written without the parentheses as
if (foo == bar && baz != qux)

Add a test to find these cases.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dcd0561ddd0fa43c51a420d53b550d738bf42001.1502734458.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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