Re: [PATCH] ALSA: intel8x0: Fix fall-through annotations

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On 10/3/18 8:34 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>>
>> You are correct. It does not trigger a warning.
>>
>> There are about 50 similar instances in the whole codebase. And, as they
>> are just a few, what I'm trying to do is to replace them with the most
>> commonly used form: "fall through"
> 
> Hm, then I'm not sure whether it's worth for further similar
> replacements.  A term "fallthru" is also very commonly used, and the
> compiler knows it, too, so why bother to rewrite?
> 

Not that common actually. There are more than 2000 instances of "fall through"
and just ~50 of "fallthru" and ~40 of "fall thru"

> I don't mean to revert the already applied changes, but maybe better
> to concentrate on fixing other real bugs (and/or real warnings).
> 

Yeah. Sure thing. It's just that I sort of ran into those cases a few days ago.

Thanks
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Gustavo