linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls

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Message-ID: <20190827194806.GJ29752@zn.tnic>
Date:   Tue, 27 Aug 2019 21:48:06 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:     Thomas Hellström (VMware) 
        <thomas_os@...pmail.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pv-drivers@...are.com,
        linux-graphics-maintainer@...are.com,
        Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@...are.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedekstop.org, Doug Covelli <dcovelli@...are.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] x86/vmware: Update platform detection code for
 VMCALL/VMMCALL hypercalls

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 09:19:54PM +0200, Thomas Hellström (VMware) wrote:
> We *do* have checkpatch.pl in the workflow. In this case I figured the
> warnings actually didn't make sense. There are breaks present and
> -Wimplicit-fallthrough doesn't complain...

Oh, we have enabled that by default already:

  a035d552a93b ("Makefile: Globally enable fall-through warning")

I guess checkpatch wrongly complains here and I did trust its output
blindly. That ain't happening again, sorry about that.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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