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Message-ID: <2808c960-6178-17b8-23d7-a6945987a658@kernel.dk>
Date:   Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:39:01 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-block@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org, linux-audit@...hat.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Kgdb-bugreport] [PATCH] kernel: convert switch/case fallthrough
 comments to fallthrough;

On 10/23/19 12:49 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 10:09 +0100, Daniel Thompson wrote:
>> On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> Use the new pseudo keyword "fallthrough;" and not the
>>> various /* fallthrough */ style comments.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> This is a single patch for the kernel/ source tree,
>>> which would otherwise be sent through as separate
>>> patches to 19 maintainer sections.
>>
>> For the kernel/debug/ files:
>>
>> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
>>
>> Will you be putting this in an immutable branch once you've collected
>> enough acks?
> 
> No, I expect Linus will either run the script
> or apply this patch one day.

Please coordinate and get something like this run/applied a few days
before -rc1 to cause the least amount of needless merge issues.

-- 
Jens Axboe