linux-kernel - Re: treewide replacement of fallthrough comments with "fallthrough" macro (was Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo keyword for switch/case use)

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Message-ID: <45dd0d8dffa6718d8cbcd24720e9e39dddb08134.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 17 Sep 2019 15:26:32 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     hpa@...or.com, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Kan Liang <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Shawn Landden <shawn@....icu>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: treewide replacement of fallthrough comments with "fallthrough"
 macro (was Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo
 keyword for switch/case use)

On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 15:19 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > With that out of the way, yes, let's do a mass conversion. As mentioned
> > before, I think "fallthrough;" should be used here (to match "break;").
> > Let's fork the C language. :)
> 
> FWIW, last week I asked Linus at the maintainer's summit which he
> preferred ("__fallthrough" or "fallthrough") and he said "fallthrough".

Nice.  I think that's better style/taste.

> Joe, if you've still got the series ready, do you want to send it for
> this merge window before -rc1 gets cut?

The first bits that add fallthrough and converts the one existing
use of fallthrough as a label can be sent now.  I'll do that in
a few days as I'm not able to do that right now.

Sending any actual comment conversion patches before -rc1 might
require changes in already queued up and tested patches

I do think a scripted conversion by major subsystem/directory
might be a better mechanism than individual patches, especially
if applied directly before releasing what will be -rc1.