netdev - Re: [PATCH] wireless: remove unneeded break

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Message-ID: <715ddf72-978c-a525-0625-ea740a104f2a@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Mon, 19 Oct 2020 11:38:25 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@...il.com>, trix@...hat.com,
        kvalo@...eaurora.org, davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org,
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        sara.sharon@...el.com, tova.mussai@...el.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: remove unneeded break



On 10/19/20 11:20, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 10:54 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> On 10/19/20 10:21, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 17:14 +0200, Christian Lamparter wrote:
>>>> On 19/10/2020 17:05, trix@...hat.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> A break is not needed if it is preceded by a return or goto
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/eeprom.c b/drivers/net/wireless/intersil/p54/eeprom.c
> []
>>>>> @@ -870,7 +870,6 @@ int p54_parse_eeprom(struct ieee80211_hw *dev, void *eeprom, int len)
>>>>>   			} else {
>>>>>   				goto good_eeprom;
>>>>>   			}
>>>>> -			break;
>>>> Won't the compiler (gcc) now complain about a missing fallthrough annotation?
>>
>> Clang would definitely complain about this.
> 
> As far as I can tell, clang 10.0.0 doesn't complain.

Oh, yeah. I didn't see the other "goto err;" in the if clause above. Clang doesn't
complain because there is actually no chance of any implicit fall-through.

--
Gustavo