Nested ternary operators spread over 4 lines are really evil for reading. Turn the outer one to proper 'if'. Now, we see, there is a common path, so the code can be simplified. This way, the code is understandable now. Checked using symbolic execution (klee), that the old and new behaviors are the same. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 72ae8ede1ac9..4686f8b9251d 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -2787,11 +2787,14 @@ static int vc_con_write_normal(struct vc_data *vc, int tc, int c, if (vc->vc_decim) insert_char(vc, 1); vc_uniscr_putc(vc, next_c); - scr_writew(himask ? - ((vc_attr << 8) & ~himask) + - ((tc & 0x100) ? himask : 0) + (tc & 0xff) : - (vc_attr << 8) + tc, - (u16 *)vc->vc_pos); + + if (himask) + tc = ((tc & 0x100) ? himask : 0) | + (tc & 0xff); + tc |= (vc_attr << 8) & ~himask; + + scr_writew(tc, (u16 *)vc->vc_pos); + if (con_should_update(vc) && draw->x < 0) { draw->x = vc->state.x; draw->from = vc->vc_pos; -- 2.27.0