linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Add fallthrough as an emacs keyword

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Message-ID: <e8c0df0e7adb53c2e16f5a4f85de9f5a0f627b4f.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:26:13 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Harry Wei <harryxiyou@...il.com>,
        Alex Shi <alex.shi@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coding-style.rst: Add fallthrough as an emacs keyword

On Sat, 2020-03-14 at 19:12 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 02:13:59PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I've no idea how to remove the infinite monkeys jibe from the chinese translation
> 
> I don't think you should.  That's part of Linus' original text, and I
> don't think it deters contributors.
> 
> > -uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random
> > -typing - an infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never
> > -make a good program).
> > +uses are less than desirable.

It's silly, and moderately offensive,
unrepresentative of the softer, modern Linus.