Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.06

[Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>]

> foo_ioctl()
> {
> 	switch(ioctl) {
> 	case FOO:
> 		lots
> 		of
> 		code
> 	error:
> 		return result;
> 	case BAR:
> 		return result;
> }
> 
> Notice that the "error:" label is indented.  Each of the case is kinda
> like a mini function with its own variables and return statement.

If it is "kinda like a mini function" why not make it "actually a mini function" and 
call it?

I really don't like the indenting here.  When I first glanced over that code I 
thought "case FOO:", "case error:", "case BAR:".  Only later after reading your 
description did I realize error wasn't part of the switch, but an independent label.

> 
> Do you think it is worth teaching the patch checker about these?  It
> seems pretty sane style to me.

It hurts my eyes.  Not that I'm the coding style czar or anything, if I were the 
kernel coding style would be different in several ways.  But inasmuch as this is a 
democracy (which it isn't) then I am opposed to crazy indentation such as your example.