Re: [PATCH] fs: iomap: replace the ternary conditional operator with max_t()

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 10:22:12AM +0800, Lu Hongfei wrote:
> It would be better to replace the traditional ternary conditional
> operator with max_t() in iomap_iter

No it wouldn't.

There are two possible meanings for iter->processed.  Either we
processed a positive number of bytes, or it's an errno.  max_t()
doesn't express that.  Your patch adds confusion, not reduces it.