[PATCH v3 1/9] regmap: Introduce regmap_get_max_register.

Joe Perches
2015-03-24T23:23:15Z

On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 23:05 +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> On 24/03/15 22:36, Mark Brown wrote:
> >> +int regmap_get_max_register(struct regmap *map)
> >> +{
> >> + return map->max_register ? : -EINVAL;
> >> +}
> >
> > Please write the logic out properly, don't abuse the ternery operator.
> Am happy to change it to your preference in next version, but this GNU
> extensions widely used in the kernel
>
> $ grep -rR "return.*? :" ./linux | wc -l
> 115

Double that when you add the ?: variants

$ git grep -E "return.*\?\s*:" | wc -l
253

There are ~530 uses like:

return <foo> ? <foo> :