Re: [PATCH net-next] intel: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Wed Jan 23 2019 - 12:11:44 EST


Hi Jeffrey,

On 1/23/19 11:04 AM, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-01-23 at 01:48 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch cases
>> where we are expecting to fall through.
>>
>> This patch fixes the following warnings:
>>
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_82575.c:636:6: warning: this
>> statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c:6710:6: warning: this
>> statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c:237:3: warning: this
>> statement may fall through [-Wimplicit-fallthrough=]
>>
>> Warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3
>>
>> This patch is part of the ongoing efforts to enabling
>> -Wimplicit-fallthrough.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_xsk.c | 3 ++-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/e1000_82575.c | 2 +-
>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> NAK on the igb changes. There is already a "fall through" code comment
> which is fine, adding a hyphen does not make the comment any more
> readable.
>

Those comments are not fine. They trigger the warnings I mention in the
commit log. With this patch such warnings are fixed.

Notice that warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3

Thanks
--
Gustavo