Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 4/4] iio: light: si1145: Replace ternary operator with min macro

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 6:23 PM, Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  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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