linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: pxa2xx: Mark expected switch fall-through

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Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 16:22:55 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
Cc:     Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>,
        Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@...il.com>,
        Robert Jarzmik <robert.jarzmik@...e.fr>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-spi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: pxa2xx: Mark expected switch fall-through

On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 02:12:11PM +0200, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:

>  			switch (drv_data->n_bytes) {
>  			case 4:
>  				bytes_left >>= 1;
> +				/* Fall through */
>  			case 2:
>  				bytes_left >>= 1;
>  			}

I think this code is just being too cute and it'd be better to just
rewrite it to directly do the expected number of shifts directly in each
case and have break statements; your fix is good but still not ideal for
readability I think.

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