Re: [PATCH] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: fix switch/case fallthrough warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Jul 20 2020 - 02:09:54 EST


On Mon, 2020-07-20 at 08:30 +0300, Marian Posteuca wrote:
> Fix the fallthrough warning that is reported by checkpatch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marian Posteuca <posteuca@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> index 2fb75a7c9314..4986591097dc 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fsl-dpaa2/ethsw/ethsw.c
> @@ -1362,7 +1362,8 @@ static int port_switchdev_blocking_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
> return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
> switch (event) {
> - case SWITCHDEV_PORT_OBJ_ADD: /* fall through */
> + case SWITCHDEV_PORT_OBJ_ADD:
> + fallthrough;

This comment is better removed instead of
converted to fallthrough;

It's no different than a multiple case block like:

switch (val) {
case FOO:
case BAR:
foobar();
break;
default:
return baz;
}

etc...