On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Dave Jones wrote:
> > case MPOL_BIND:
> > - /* Fall through */
> > case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
> > nodes = pol->v.nodes;
> > break;
>
> Any reason not to leave this ?
>
> "missing break" is the 2nd most common thing that coverity picks up.
> Most of them are false positives like the above, but the lack of annotations
> in our source makes it time-consuming to pick through them all to find the
> real bugs.
>
Check out things like drivers/mfd/wm5110-tables.c that do things like
switch (reg) {
case ARIZONA_SOFTWARE_RESET:
case ARIZONA_DEVICE_REVISION:
case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_SPI_CFG_1:
case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C1_CFG_1:
case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C2_CFG_1:
case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C1_CFG_2:
case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C2_CFG_2:
...
and that file has over 1,000 case statements. Having a
/* fall through */
for all of them would be pretty annoying.
I don't remember any coding style rule about this (in fact
Documentation/CodingStyle has examples of case statements without such a
comment), I think it's just personal preference so I'll leave it to Andrew
and what he prefers.
(And if he prefers the /* fall through */ then we should ask that it be
added to checkpatch.pl since it warns about a million other things and not
this.)
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