Re: [PATCH] usbip: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 02:06:26PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
> On 7/7/20 1:52 PM, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> > Replace the existing /* fall through */ comments and its variants with
> > the new pseudo-keyword macro fallthrough[1]. Also, remove unnecessary
> > fall-through markings when it is the case.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html?highlight=fallthrough#implicit-switch-case-fall-through
> > 
> 
> Is fallthrough syntax supported on our min gcc version?
> 

The __attribute__((__fallthrough__)) has been supported since GCC 7.1
and it should be no problem for early versions because fallthrough is
a macro that also expands to: do {} while (0)  /* fallthrough */

> Does checkpatch or coccicheck catch these cases?
> 

checkpatch does:

https://git.kernel.org/linus/f36d3eb89a43047d3eba222a8132585da25cebfd

> The patch looks good.
> 
> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks
--
Gustavo