Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: Rename fallthrough label to unhandled

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Aug 01 2019 - 13:42:37 EST


On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 06:50 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 03:23:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
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> You can say that if you want, but you made the point that your think the macro
> as you have written is more readable. You example illustrates though that /*
> fallthrough */ is a pretty common comment, and not prefixing it makes it look
> like someone didn't add a comment that they meant to. The __ prefix is standard
> practice for defining macros to attributes (212 instances of it by my count). I
> don't mind rewriting the goto labels at all, but I think consistency is
> valuable.

Hey Neil.

Perhaps you want to make this argument on the RFC patch thread
that introduces the fallthrough pseudo-keyword.

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1108577/