Re: [PATCH 00/10 linux-next] drivers/usb: remove unnecessary break after goto/return

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Jul 24 2014 - 11:52:33 EST


On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 17:46 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
>
> > On 24 July 2014 at 13:37 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 10:18 +0200, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > > Small patchset addressing break redundancy on drivers/usb branch
> > > (suggested by Joe Perches).
> >
> > Frankly, that is not a good idea. Somebody will remove a "goto"
> > and forget to readd the "break"
>
> No problem ; checkpatch would give a warning anyway. See "Possible switch
> case/default not preceeded by break or fallthrough comment"

Generally true, but not everyone uses checkpatch.


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