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Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:01:42 +0200 From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.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>, Shawn Landden <shawn@....icu>, "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>, Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, clang-built-linux <clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>, 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 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... Cheers, Miguel
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