On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 08:00:36PM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote: > I think it boils down to which lines I typed myself :-) (I tend to > prefer (...), personally).
Well, "return" is an operator, not a function - but more importantly the style document was changed at some point in the past to not use paranthesis: /* No parentheses are needed around the return value. */ return eight; See /usr/share/misc/style. Wording is quite soft, and we don't bulk-convert things to avoid unessary churn. Martin