Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow --fix removal of unnecessary break statements

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 13:07 -0700, Tom Rix wrote:
> I like!
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> could add a '|break' here to catch the couple
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> break;
> 
> break;

Unfortunately, checkpatch is really stupid and it
wouldn't catch those
cases as there are blank lines
between the existing consecutive break
statements.

It would catch

	break;
	break;

but there aren't any of those so it seems unlikely
to be a very useful addition.