linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: Rename fallthrough label to unhandled

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Date:   Fri, 02 Aug 2019 16:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     joe@...ches.com
Cc:     nhorman@...driver.com, vyasevich@...il.com,
        marcelo.leitner@...il.com, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: Rename fallthrough label to unhandled

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:47:34 -0700

> On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:32:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 07:19 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
>> > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:04:37PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> > > > fallthrough may become a pseudo reserved keyword so this only use of
>> > > > fallthrough is better renamed to allow it.
> 
> Can you or any other maintainer apply this patch
> or ack it so David Miller can apply it?

I, like others, don't like the lack of __ in the keyword.  It's kind of
rediculous the problems it creates to pollute the global namespace like
that and yes also inconsistent with other shorthands for builtins.