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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki•fi>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox•com>, Netdev <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	linux-net-drivers@solarflare•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] Removed bogus 'fall-thru' comments
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 13:12:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080509121206.GE13470@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0805072328570.23091@wrl-59.cs.helsinki.fi>

Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 
> > Fall-through is expected outside a switch statement.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c |    2 --
> >  drivers/net/sfc/rx.c     |    1 -
> >  2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c b/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
> > index 46db549..9cac344 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/sfc/falcon.c
> > @@ -2468,14 +2468,12 @@ int falcon_probe_nic(struct efx_nic *efx)
> >   fail5:
> >  	falcon_free_buffer(efx, &efx->irq_status);
> >   fail4:
> > -	/* fall-thru */
> >   fail3:
> >  	if (nic_data->pci_dev2) {
> >  		pci_dev_put(nic_data->pci_dev2);
> >  		nic_data->pci_dev2 = NULL;
> >  	}
> >   fail2:
> > -	/* fall-thru */
> >   fail1:
> >  	kfree(efx->nic_data);
> >  	return rc;
> 
> Is there really any point in keeping those extra goto targets? I'd suggest 
> that you simply eliminate the extra ones completely.

I think we'll do that at some point, along with giving them meaningful
names rather than numbers.  But not right now.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-09 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-07 11:41 [PATCH 0/9] sfc: various updates Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 11:51 ` [PATCH 1/9] Add TSO support Ben Hutchings
2008-05-13  5:17   ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-07 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/9] Add phy_flash_cfg module parameter and implementation Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 11:56 ` [PATCH 3/9] Removed bogus 'fall-thru' comments Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 20:30   ` Ilpo Järvinen
2008-05-09 12:12     ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2008-05-07 11:57 ` [PATCH 4/9] Remove garbage from comment Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 11:58 ` [PATCH 5/9] Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 11:58 ` [PATCH 6/9] Fix code formatting Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 11:59 ` [PATCH 7/9] Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 12:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event Ben Hutchings
2008-05-07 12:36 ` [PATCH 9/9] sfc: Add self-test support Ben Hutchings

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