As the expression evaluates to a boolean anyway (relational and logical operators) conversion with the ternary operator is not needed here as coccinelle notes (boolconv.cocci) Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> --- V2: sent out the wrong version - the commit message was longer than 75 chars - only change here is the commit message wrapping. V3: dropping the superfluous outer () as suggested by Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@xxxxxxxxx> scripts/coccinelle/misc/boolconv.cocci warned about: drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c:14:48-53: WARNING: conversion to bool not needed here Patch was compile tested with: x86_64_defconfig + Staging=y, WILC1000_SDIO=m, WILC1000_SPI=m, WILC1000=m (checkpatch, sparse and cocci clean otherwise) Patch is against 5.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20190405) drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c index c238969..6c9fd3a 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_wlan.c @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ static inline bool is_wilc1000(u32 id) { - return ((id & 0xfffff000) == 0x100000 ? true : false); + return (id & 0xfffff000) == 0x100000; } static inline void acquire_bus(struct wilc *wilc, enum bus_acquire acquire) -- 2.1.4