On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Dave Jones wrote: > > case MPOL_BIND: > > - /* Fall through */ > > case MPOL_INTERLEAVE: > > nodes = pol->v.nodes; > > break; > > Any reason not to leave this ? > > "missing break" is the 2nd most common thing that coverity picks up. > Most of them are false positives like the above, but the lack of annotations > in our source makes it time-consuming to pick through them all to find the > real bugs. > Check out things like drivers/mfd/wm5110-tables.c that do things like switch (reg) { case ARIZONA_SOFTWARE_RESET: case ARIZONA_DEVICE_REVISION: case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_SPI_CFG_1: case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C1_CFG_1: case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C2_CFG_1: case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C1_CFG_2: case ARIZONA_CTRL_IF_I2C2_CFG_2: ... and that file has over 1,000 case statements. Having a /* fall through */ for all of them would be pretty annoying. I don't remember any coding style rule about this (in fact Documentation/CodingStyle has examples of case statements without such a comment), I think it's just personal preference so I'll leave it to Andrew and what he prefers. (And if he prefers the /* fall through */ then we should ask that it be added to checkpatch.pl since it warns about a million other things and not this.) -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>