Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: skip macros when finding missing switch/case break

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jul 31 2020 - 14:05:31 EST


On Wed, 2020-07-29 at 20:59 +0800, Cambda Zhu wrote:
> The checkpatch.pl only searches 3 previous lines when finding missing
> switch/case break, and macros are treated as normal statements. If the
> cases are surrounded with CONFIG, checkpatch.pl may report false
> warnings. For example:

Likely this test should be removed altogether as
it's never really worked well and now compilers
find this and emit warnings.