linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword

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Date:   Sat, 12 Oct 2019 00:26:06 +0200
From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "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>,
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        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
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        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>,
        "open list:DOCUMENTATION" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:08 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 08:01:42PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > Hi Linus,
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:30 PM Linus Torvalds
> > <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:46 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword to enable the removal of comments
> > > > like '/* fallthrough */'.
> > >
> > > I applied patches 1-3 to my tree just to make it easier for people to
> > > start doing this. Maybe some people want to do the conversion on their
> > > own subsystem rather than with a global script, but even if not, this
> > > looks better as a "prepare for the future" series and I feel that if
> > > we're doing the "fallthrough" thing eventually, the sooner we do the
> > > prepwork the better.
> > >
> > > I'm a tiny bit worried that the actual conversion is just going to
> > > cause lots of pain for the stable people, but I'll not worry about it
> > > _too_ much. If the stable people decide that it's too painful for them
> > > to deal with the comment vs keyword model, they may want to backport
> > > these three patches too.
> >
> > I was waiting for a v2 series to pick it up given we had some pending changes...
>
> Hmpf, looks like it's in torvalds/master now. Miguel, most of the changes
> were related to the commit log, IIRC, so that ship has sailed. :( Can the
> stuff in Documentation/ be improved with a follow-up patch, perhaps?

Linus seems to have applied some of the improvements to the commit
messages, but not those to the content (not sure why, since they were
also easy ones). But no worries, we will do those later :)

Cheers,
Miguel