linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 03/79] ASoC: ab8500: Mark expected switch fall-through

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Message-ID: <90e92595-1609-6c3b-b1d7-ca6a20a81f79@embeddedor.com>
Date:   Sat, 27 Apr 2019 12:31:22 -0500
From:   "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.0 03/79] ASoC: ab8500: Mark expected switch
 fall-through

On 4/27/19 12:14 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 09:37:22PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 102cefc8e879b707be0024fdc7bce1deeb359a5f ]
>>
>> In preparation to enabling -Wimplicit-fallthrough, mark switch
>> cases where we are expecting to fall through.
> 
> Are we *realy* going to enable -Wimplicit-fallthrough in stable kernels
> and both backport all the fixes and add new fixes for the issues which
> don't have backportable fixes?
> 

I don't think so.

There are hundreds of these patches in mainline, and I think this is
the first time I see one of them being backported.

--
Gustavo