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Date:   Thu, 24 Aug 2017 13:42:02 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Shevchenko, Andriy" <andriy.shevchenko@...el.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: compiler/compiler-gcc: Add __fallthrough

On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 18:32 +0000, Shevchenko, Andriy wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 11:20 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2017-08-24 at 16:36 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 09:08:35AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > gcc v7.0 can warn on missing break statements from case labels
> > > > using a special __attribute__((fallthrough))__ marker.
> > > > 
> > > > Add a __fallthrough convenience macro for gcc versions >= 7 and
> > > > make the generic use of __fallthrough a no-op.
> > > 
> > > So, what happened to this change? Andrew?
> > 
> > Did you mean to send this just to me?
> 
> Oops, not exactly, though...
> 
> > 
> > No idea really.
> > It seemed like a decent idea though.
> 
> ...it might make sense to ping Andrew.

Well, OK.