[alsa-devel] Fwd: [PATCH 7/9] ASoC: Blackfin: I2S CPU DAI driver

[John Kacur]

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:35 AM,  <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:58:08 +0200, John Kacur said:
>
>> My eyes fell upon this switch statement, probably I have similar
>> criticisms as to what has already been said, but:
>> 1. Surely the default case is also an -EINVAL
>> 2. Why not let all the EINVALS fall through, it will shorten up the
>> code, and IMO make it more readable, something like this?
>> +       switch (fmt & SND_SOC_DAIFMT_MASTER_MASK) {
>> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFM: /* Passing Case */
>> +               break;
>> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFS: /* Failing Cases */
>> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFS:
>> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFM:
>> +               ret = -EINVAL;
>> +               break;
>> +       default:
>> +               printk(KERN_INFO "Unknown SND_SOC_DAIFMT kind\n");
>> +               ret = -EINVAL;
>> +               break;
>> +       }
>
> Even shorter, but puts the default in a non-standard place:
>
> +       switch (fmt & SND_SOC_DAIFMT_MASTER_MASK) {
> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFM: /* Passing Case */
> +               break;
> +       default:                        /* So much Fail we should say something */
> +               printk(KERN_INFO "Unknown SND_SOC_DAIFMT kind\n");
> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFS: /* Failing Cases */
> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBM_CFS:
> +       case SND_SOC_DAIFMT_CBS_CFM:
> +               ret = -EINVAL;
> +               break;
> +       }
>
> (I see a checkpatch update to check where default: is, coming in 3.. 2.. 1.. :)
>

Well, of course you only want to make things shorter when it increases
clarity, you don't want to make things shorter for the sake of making
them shorter, so yeah, I would nix that non-standard default position
too.