RE: [PATCH] wifi:mac80211: Replace the ternary conditional operator with max()

From: David Laight
Date: Thu Jun 29 2023 - 09:28:23 EST


From: Ping-Ke Shih
> Sent: 28 June 2023 02:49
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: You Kangren <youkangren@xxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2023 6:48 PM
> > To: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; Eric Dumazet
> > <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>; Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>; Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>; open
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> > Subject: [PATCH] wifi:mac80211: Replace the ternary conditional operator with max()
>
> The semicolon of "wifi:" is different from others.
>
> >
> > Replace the ternary conditional operator with max() to make the code clean
> >
> > Signed-off-by: You Kangren <youkangren@xxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > net/mac80211/tdls.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/mac80211/tdls.c b/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> > index a4af3b7675ef..9f8b0842a616 100644
> > --- a/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> > +++ b/net/mac80211/tdls.c
> > @@ -946,7 +946,7 @@ ieee80211_tdls_build_mgmt_packet_data(struct ieee80211_sub_if_data *sdata,
> > int ret;
> > struct ieee80211_link_data *link;
> >
> > - link_id = link_id >= 0 ? link_id : 0;
> > + link_id = max(link_id, 0);
>
> Original logic means "if link_id < 0, then use default link (0)" instead of
> "always use link_id larger than or equal to 0". So, I think max(link_id, 0) could
> cause misunderstanding.

The clearest is probably:
if (link_id < 0)
link_id = 0;

The compiler could easily generate the same code (compare and conditional
move).

David

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