Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: s3c-fb: Mark expected switch fall-throughs

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jun 25 2019 - 13:38:03 EST


On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 12:06 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
> On 6/25/19 11:52 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-06-25 at 11:01 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > > In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch
> > > cases where we are expecting to fall through.
> > []
> > > This patch is part of the ongoing efforts to enable
> > > -Wimplicit-fallthrough.
> >
> > Just enable the thing already.
> >
> > If you stopped trying to do it all yourself, others
>
> What are you talking about?
>
> Anyone can enable it, I'm adding this to every commit:
>
> Warning level 3 was used: -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3

No one does that by default and almost no one
is helping eliminate these. Not even on th

Almost no one uses make W=<levels> either as it's
generally extremely noisy and can emit a lot of
false positives.

> And I'll send a PR with a proper patch for the Makefile
> during the next merge window.

That's great.

> If had the power I would have enabled this option since day 1,
> so every developer can take care of their own code.

You have always had the power to send a patch.

You also seem to believe the build needs to be
completely clean before enabling the switch.

I don't.

> Lately, you are not being of much help, Joe.

<smile> What kind of help are you expecting?

I'm not submitting patches adding fallthough comments
as I think that's not a good form. I've said so
repeatedly.

I believe I suggested months ago you default enable
the compiler switch.

So it's up to you to either do it or not.