linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/10 linux-next] drivers/usb: remove unnecessary break after goto/return

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Message-ID: <1406217131.27221.27.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:52:11 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>,
	usb-storage@...ts.one-eyed-alien.net, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10 linux-next] drivers/usb: remove unnecessary break
 after goto/return

On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 17:46 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> 
> > On 24 July 2014 at 13:37 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > > Small patchset addressing break redundancy on drivers/usb branch
> > > (suggested by Joe Perches).
> >
> > Frankly, that is not a good idea. Somebody will remove a "goto"
> > and forget to readd the "break"
> 
> No problem ; checkpatch would give a warning anyway. See "Possible switch
> case/default not preceeded by break or fallthrough comment"

Generally true, but not everyone uses checkpatch.


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