linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: skip macros when finding missing switch/case break

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Message-ID: <83fc36d8c87408298a4cd6d66b140b330f2c45b0.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 11:05:27 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Cambda Zhu <cambda@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: skip macros when finding missing
 switch/case break

On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 20:59 +0800, Cambda Zhu wrote:
> The checkpatch.pl only searches 3 previous lines when finding missing
> switch/case break, and macros are treated as normal statements. If the
> cases are surrounded with CONFIG, checkpatch.pl may report false
> warnings. For example:

Likely this test should be removed altogether as
it's never really worked well and now compilers
find this and emit warnings.