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Date:   Fri, 28 Oct 2022 20:39:12 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Emily Peri <eperi1024@...il.com>
cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: Replace ternary statement with min
 function



On Fri, 28 Oct 2022, Emily Peri wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 10:32:15AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 06:26:54PM -0700, Emily Peri wrote:
> > > Ternary statements that pick the min of two values can be replaced by
> > > the built-in min() function. This improves readability, since its quicker
> > > to understand min(x, y) than x < y ? x : y. Issue found by coccicheck.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Emily Peri <eperi1024@...il.com>
> >
> > This breaks the build.  Use min_t(uint, wps_ielen, MAX_WPS_IE_LEN);
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
>
> Oh! Thanks for the feedback, that makes sense! When you say 'breaks the
> build,' do you mean it didn't compile, or the module didn't load (or
> something else)? I'm trying to figure out what I did wrong when testing
> it.

Normally it means that it didn't compile.  Check that you actually have a
.o file for the affected file.

julia

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