linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][next] drm/nouveau: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

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Date:   Tue, 07 Jul 2020 20:27:12 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Ben Skeggs <skeggsb@...il.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@...hat.com>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel@...ll.ch>,
        ML nouveau <nouveau@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ML dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][next] drm/nouveau: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

On Wed, 2020-07-08 at 13:22 +1000, Ben Skeggs wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 03:31, Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@...nel.org> wrote:
> > Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
> > the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
> > fall-through markings when it is the case.
> I really like this!  I was not a fan of explicitly marking those with comments.
> 
> Thank you, taken in my tree.
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c
[]
> > @@ -932,7 +932,7 @@ nv50_dp_bpc_to_depth(unsigned int bpc)
> >         switch (bpc) {
> >         case  6: return 0x2;
> >         case  8: return 0x5;
> > -       case 10: /* fall-through */
> > +       case 10: fallthrough;

IMO: this comment/fallthrough should be removed instead.