linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough to -Wimplicit-fallthrough=2

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:12:23 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: Convert -Wimplicit-fallthrough to -Wimplicit-fallthrough=2

On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 1:09 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2019-08-29 at 14:02 +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > In particular the default value of 3 does not match the comments like
> > /* falls through to do foobar */
>
> How many comments are there like this in the kernel?

+1 Given we are trying to move to attr-only and therefore
-Wimplicit-fallthrough=5, going back a level needs to be backed by a
good argument. It would be way better to fix those comments instead.

Cheers,
Miguel