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

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Aug 25 2020 - 12:48:01 EST


On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 11:49 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>
> 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.

What makes you think I didn't already do that?

I think your desire for micropatches is unnecessary.