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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:22:16 +0530 From: SIMRAN SINGHAL <singhalsimran0@...il.com> To: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>, Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>, Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel <outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com> Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 4/4] iio: light: si1145: Replace ternary operator with min macro On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de> wrote: > On 03/29/2017 02:40 PM, Julia Lawall wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 29 Mar 2017, simran singhal wrote: >> >>> Use macro min() to get the minimum of two values for brevity and >>> readability. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@...il.com> >>> --- >>> drivers/iio/light/si1145.c | 2 +- >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/light/si1145.c b/drivers/iio/light/si1145.c >>> index 096034c..e7ad6fb 100644 >>> --- a/drivers/iio/light/si1145.c >>> +++ b/drivers/iio/light/si1145.c >>> @@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static int si1145_set_chlist(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, unsigned long scan_mask) >>> data->scan_mask = scan_mask; >>> ret = si1145_param_set(data, SI1145_PARAM_CHLIST, reg); >>> >>> - return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; >>> + return min(ret, 0); >> >> A similar change involving max was already rejected. ret < 0 is a >> standard way of detecting an error, so perhaps leaving that explicitly >> present will be preferred. > > I think a more sensible thing to do here is to check whether ret/err can > actually take any positive values and if not, replace the whole thing with > just 'return ret;' or 'return some_fn()'. I'd expect that his can be done in > most of the cases. >
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