On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > I fully agree and have code in the oom killer that has the "fall through" 
> > comment if there's code in between the case statements, but I think things 
> > like
> > 
> >     case MPOL_BIND:
> >     case MPOL_INTERLEAVE:
> >             ...
> > 
> > is quite easy to read.  I don't feel strongly at all, though, so I'll just 
> > leave it to Andrew's preference.
> 
> I've never even thought about it, but that won't prevent me from
> pretending otherwise!  How about:
> 
> This:
> 
>       case WIBBLE:
>               something();
>               something_else();
>       case WOBBLE:
> 
> needs a /* fall through */ comment (because it *looks* like a mistake),
> whereas
> 
>       case WIBBLE:
>       case WOBBLE:
> 
> does not?
> 

The switch-case examples given in Documentation/CodingStyle agree with 
that.
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