linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] gpio: bd70528: remove unneeded break

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Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 2020 07:39:33 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Vaittinen, Matti" <Matti.Vaittinen@...rohmeurope.com>,
        "bgolaszewski@...libre.com" <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        "trix@...hat.com" <trix@...hat.com>,
        "linus.walleij@...aro.org" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-power <linux-power@...rohmeurope.com>,
        "linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org" <linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "apw@...onical.com" <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio: bd70528: remove unneeded break

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 07:25 +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
> Hello Joe & All,
> On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 11:36 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2020-10-20 at 11:48 +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
[]
> > > And for peeps who have not been following - following function
> > > triggers the checkpatch error above:
> > 
> > Huh?  what version of checkpatch are you using?
> > Send it to me please.
[]
> Please find my version of checkpatch and the patch to trigger the
> warning attached.

Thanks.  This test wasn't particularly useful
(and had some false positives) and was removed by

commit ef3c005c0eb07a60949191bc6ee407d5f43cc502
Author: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date:   Tue Aug 11 18:35:19 2020 -0700

    checkpatch: remove missing switch/case break test
    
    This test doesn't work well and newer compilers are much better
    at emitting this warning.
    
    Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Cambda Zhu <cambda@...ux.alibaba.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7e25090c79f6a69d502ab8219863300790192fe2.camel@perches.com
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>