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To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Alex Dewar <alex.dewar90@gmail.com>
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On 8/25/20 11:47, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 11:49 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>>
>> On 8/25/20 11:26, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2020-08-25 at 11:19 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>>>> On 8/25/20 10:51, Alex Dewar wrote:
>>>>> Commit 36a8f01cd24b ("IB/qib: Add congestion control agent implementation")
>>>>> erroneously marked a couple of switch cases as /* FALLTHROUGH */, which
>>>>> were later converted to fallthrough statements by commit df561f6688fe
>>>>> ("treewide: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword"). This triggered a Coverity
>>>>> warning about unreachable code.
>>>>>
>>>>> Remove the fallthrough statements and replace the mass of gotos with
>>>>> simple return statements to make the code terser and less bug-prone.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This should be split up into two separate patches: one to address the
>>>> fallthrough markings, and another one for the gotos.
>>>
>>> I don't think it's necessary to break this into multiple patches.
>>> Logical changes in a single patch are just fine, micro patches
>>> aren't that useful.
>>>
>>
>> There is a reason for this. Read the changelog text and review the patch.
> 
> What makes you think I didn't already do that?
> 

You would have noticed this should be two patches.

> I think your desire for micropatches is unnecessary.
> 

You might be generalizing. My 'desire' here is justified and specific.

Thanks
--
Gustavo