Drop useless parens in conditionals

defaults/initrd.scripts

@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ prompt_user(){
 
 	eval local oldvalue='$'${1}
 
-	[ \( $# != 2 \) -a \( $# != 3 \) ] && \
+	[ $# != 2 -a $# != 3 ] && \
 		bad_msg "Bad invocation of function prompt_user, please file a bug \
 		report with this message" && exit 1
 	[ -n "${3}" ] && local explnt=" or : ${3}" || local explnt="."

defaults/linuxrc

@@ -270,13 +270,13 @@ do
 	esac
 done
 
-if [ \( "${CDROOT}" = '0' \) ]
+if [ "${CDROOT}" = '0' ]
 then
-	if [ -z "${REAL_ROOT}" -a \( "${FAKE_ROOT}" != "/dev/ram0" \) ]
+	if [ -z "${REAL_ROOT}" -a "${FAKE_ROOT}" != "/dev/ram0" ]
 	then
 		REAL_ROOT="${FAKE_ROOT}"
 	fi
-	if [ -z "${REAL_INIT}" -a \( "${FAKE_INIT}" != "/linuxrc" \) ]
+	if [ -z "${REAL_INIT}" -a "${FAKE_INIT}" != "/linuxrc" ]
 	then
 		REAL_INIT="${FAKE_INIT}"
 	fi