linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: fix switch/case fallthrough warning

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Message-ID: <9b0c3eb7088bfa2f64b143d70e5a4fb7947da330.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 19 Jul 2020 23:09:25 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Marian Posteuca <posteuca@...ex.one>,
        Ioana Radulescu <ruxandra.radulescu@....com>,
        Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: fix switch/case fallthrough
 warning

On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 08:30 +0300, Marian Posteuca wrote:
> Fix the fallthrough warning that is reported by checkpatch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marian Posteuca <posteuca@...ex.one>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> index 2fb75a7c9314..4986591097dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> @@ -1362,7 +1362,8 @@ static int port_switchdev_blocking_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
>  		return NOTIFY_DONE;
>  
>  	switch (event) {
> -	case SWITCHDEV_PORT_OBJ_ADD: /* fall through */
> +	case SWITCHDEV_PORT_OBJ_ADD:
> +		fallthrough;

This comment is better removed instead of
converted to fallthrough;

It's no different than a multiple case block like:

	switch (val) {
	case FOO:
	case BAR:
		foobar();
		break;
	default:
		return baz;
	}

etc...