Re: block: new gcc-5.1 warnings..

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Wed May 27 2015 - 18:57:12 EST


On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 03:32:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So gcc-5.1 seems to have a few new warnings, most of which seem of
> dubious value, but whatever.
>
> One of them
>
> drivers/block/hd.c: In function âhd_requestâ:
> drivers/block/hd.c:630:11: warning: switch condition has boolean value
> [-Wswitch-bool]
> switch (rq_data_dir(req)) {
> ^
>
> just made me go "what?" since doing a switch on a boolean is perfectly
> fine, and there can be various valid reasons to do so (using "break"
> and fall-through etc can make the structure of the true/false cases
> nicer).

In which situation fall-through switch() would make better structure then
plain if()? It's easier to miss-read fall-through.

--
Kirill A. Shutemov
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