On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 01:28:06 +0100 Salah Triki <salah.triki@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Replace conditional statement with min() in order to make code cleaner. Issue > found by coccinelle. > +++ b/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c > request, !!dir, recip, value, index, len, retval); > - return retval < 0 ? retval : 0; > + return min(retval, 0); > } I'm very much against this change. The function min() is there for numeric values. But here we have a situation where we do one thing if there was an error, and another thing if there was no error. This sort of abuse is exactly why blindly clicking heels whenever a tool tells you is not optimal. If the objective is to shut the tool up, please consider the following instead: diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c b/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c index 9596e4279294..bbcbcf199fa9 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c +++ b/drivers/usb/class/usblp.c @@ -264,7 +264,9 @@ static int usblp_ctrl_msg(struct usblp *usblp, int request, int type, int dir, i dev_dbg(&usblp->intf->dev, "usblp_control_msg: rq: 0x%02x dir: %d recip: %d value: %d idx: %d len: %#x result: %d\n", request, !!dir, recip, value, index, len, retval); - return retval < 0 ? retval : 0; + if (retval < 0) + return retval; + return 0; } #define usblp_read_status(usblp, status)\ -- Pete