Hi Linus, On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:30 PM Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:46 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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
