linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 001/141] afs: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

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Message-ID: <97e87baf1dae54e56655d1034886f19bba06d13f.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:41:17 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavoars@...nel.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/141] afs: Fix fall-through warnings for Clang

On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 17:28 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> On 11/20/20 17:18, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > My preference would be to change these to break and not fallthrough;
> 
> And my preference is fallthrough.

If so, that's an unusual choice here as it seems most or all of
the other patches you submitted use break in the same situation
where the next case is a single line break;

see: patches 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, etc...

> Joe, please, let the maintainer share their opinion on this first.

Why?
My preferences are my preferences and I don't mind announcing them.