It would be, if it weren't artificially so, for violates several kernel
coding standards, one being that the "case" labels indent with the switch,
not under it (the other being the placement of braces).
No, that's not it at all. We don't indent 'case' because it matches with
the 'switch', not because of any room issues.
It's not at all inconsistent. It's just making clear how the parts of the
function group together.
Indenting a case-statement an extra level is as stupid as indenting "else"
one extra level from the "if ()" it goes together with. Do you think that
would be sane?
The fact that the 'case' thing is technically parsed as a separate
statement in C doesn't change anything.
Linus
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