Re: [PATCH] afs: Move comments after /* fallthrough */

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Aug 15 2019 - 09:40:20 EST


Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Make the code a bit easier for a script to appropriately convert
> case statement blocks with /* fallthrough */ comments to a macro by
> moving comments describing the next case block to the case statement.

This doesn't sound good. Can you give an illustration of what a resulting
case might look like? Say taking the following as an example:

> @@ -282,10 +282,8 @@ static int afs_deliver_cb_callback(struct afs_call *call)
> case 0:
> afs_extract_to_tmp(call);
> call->unmarshall++;
> -
> - /* extract the FID array and its count in two steps */
> /* fall through */
> - case 1:
> + case 1: /* extract the FID array and its count in two steps */
> _debug("extract FID count");
> ret = afs_extract_data(call, true);
> if (ret < 0)

David