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Date:   Mon, 22 Oct 2018 11:48:44 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Compiler Attributes: __fallthrough

On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:29 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 07:14:12PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > These are two patches are meant to go on top of the rest of the compiler
> > attributes series on:
> >
> >   https://github.com/ojeda/linux/tree/compiler-attributes
> >
> > which will be sent to Greg for the next merge window.
> >
> > Please review them and let me know! (specially if someone is against
> > __fallthrough for some reason :-).
>
> Will this work with all of the static tools that are currently looking
> for the comment instead?  I know coverity handles that, what about
> others?

Thank you Greg, good question. I will try to keep all the information
we can get about the tools in the commit message.

I will also contact the different tools about this.

Cheers,
Miguel