linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] drbd: Avoid Clang warning about pointless switch statment

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Date:   Tue, 18 Dec 2018 06:29:13 -0700
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@...bit.com>,
        drbd-dev@...ts.linbit.com, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drbd: Avoid Clang warning about pointless switch
 statment

On 12/18/18 2:22 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:29:38AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Hi Lars and Philipp,
>>>
>>> Could you please make sure that this patch and the other one I sent make
>>> it into 4.21/5.0? I am not sure when you were planning on sending the
>>> pull request to Jens that you mentioned in the other thread but I've
>>> noticed most maintainers typically send their requests for the impending
>>> merge window around -rc7 or so and I wanted to make sure it was on your
>>> radar.
> 
> I'm sorry.
> From my point of view, "fixing the pointless switch" is just "pointless",
> so it (again) fell through.  I get it that it is important to others,
> and getting rid of Clang warnings is a good thing.  So sorry again.
> 
>> It needs to get here now, but drbd hasn't really sent anything in for
>> about a year,
> 
> Last actual fix was 2018-06-25 64dafbc9530c drbd: fix access after free
> so almost six month, yes.

It just dropped from its usual cadence of regular updates.

>> so I'm starting to doubt how maintained it is at this
>> point.
> 
> Oh, it is maintained.  It is just happens to be "stable".
> We don't add new features there,
> and I'm currently not aware of any misbehavior.

Well, I guess that's good news then :-)

> I'll prepare a pull request containing this,
> the other Clang warning patch from Nathan,
> and possibly other small stuff that accumulated,
> if I can find any, and send that out later today.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder,

Thank.

-- 
Jens Axboe