Re: [PATCH] IB/qib: remove superfluous fallthrough statements

[Gustavo A. R. Silva]

On 8/25/20 11:26, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 11:19 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>>
>> On 8/25/20 10:51, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>> Commit 36a8f01cd24b ("IB/qib: Add congestion control agent implementation")
>>> erroneously marked a couple of switch cases as /* FALLTHROUGH */, which
>>> were later converted to fallthrough statements by commit df561f6688fe
>>> ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword"). This triggered a Coverity
>>> warning about unreachable code.
>>>
>>> Remove the fallthrough statements and replace the mass of gotos with
>>> simple return statements to make the code terser and less bug-prone.
>>>
>>
>> This should be split up into two separate patches: one to address the
>> fallthrough markings, and another one for the gotos.
> 
> I don't think it's necessary to break this into multiple patches.
> Logical changes in a single patch are just fine, micro patches
> aren't that useful.
> 

There is a reason for this. Read the changelog text and review the patch.

Thanks
--
Gustavo