Quoting Guenter Roeck <li...@roeck-us.net>:

On Fri, Nov 03, 2017 at 04:04:23PM +0100, Wim Van Sebroeck wrote:
Hi Gustavo,

> In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
> where we are expecting to fall through.
>
> Notice that in this particular case I replaced "Fall" with a proper
> "fall through" comment, which is what GCC is expecting to find.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsi...@embeddedor.com>
> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c
> index c0d07ee..c882252 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/pcwd_pci.c
> @@ -545,7 +545,7 @@ static long pcipcwd_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
>                    return -EINVAL;
>
>            pcipcwd_keepalive();
> -          /* Fall */
> +          /* fall through */
>    }
>
>    case WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT:
> --
> 2.7.4
>

Shouldn't the /* fall through */ come after the } ?

Good question. This is an unconditional code block needed to declare
a local variable within the case statement. What is correct in that
situation ?


I think it is correct to place the comment outside the code block.

I'll send a patch shortly.

Thanks
--
Gustavo A. R. Silva






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