Re: [PATCH] soc: qcom: qmi: Use min() instead of doing it manually

[Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>]

On Mon 28 Feb 19:36 CST 2022, lotte bai wrote:

> Fix following coccicheck warning:
> drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c:773:12-13: WARNING opportunity for min()
> 

Thanks for the patch Haowen.

> Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen88@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
> b/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
> index c8c4c73..3337a70 100644
> --- a/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
> +++ b/drivers/soc/qcom/qmi_interface.c
> @@ -770,7 +770,7 @@ static ssize_t qmi_send_message(struct qmi_handle *qmi,
> 
>          kfree(msg);
> 
> -       return ret < 0 ? ret : 0;
> +       return min(ret, 0);

The code isn't trying to say "return the minimum of ret and 0", it says
"if ret is negative return that, otherwise return 0".

Mathematically this happens to be the same, but for me as reader of the
code they have different meaning.

Regards,
Bjorn