On Mon, 2018-10-22 at 11:51 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 8:11 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2018-10-21 at 19:14 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote: > > > Let gcc know these cases are meant to fall through to the next label > > > by annotating them with the new __fallthrough statement attribute; > > > and remove the comment since it conveys the same information > > > (which was also parsed by gcc to suppress the warning). > > > > Instead of many individual conversion patches, > > perhaps a script to do all the conversions at once. > > Note that this was only an example of the attribute (some people asked > for an example when introducing another one, so I preemptively did it > for this one). > > Doing the conversion (and how :-) I left it for afterwards, if people > agree with the attribute. > > > Maybe: > > > > pattern='(?:\/\*\s*fall(?:\s*|\s*\-\s*)thr(?:u|ough)\s*\*\/|\/\/\s*fall\s*thr(?:u|ough)\s*$)' > > git grep -P -i --name-only "$pattern" -- '*.[ch]' | > > xargs perl -p -i -e "s/$pattern/__fallthrough;/gi" > > By the way, I checked first if coccinelle could match input comments, > but it doesn't, according to Julia. I am also thinking whether a > compiler plugin could easily do this, but I don't have my hopes high > given these are comments... > > Also, regardless of how it is done, the patches need to be sent > individually to maintainers, no? Not really no. For instance the spdx license treewide change. commit b24413180f5600bcb3bb70fbed5cf186b60864bd > I have a vague memory that big & > automated conversions were a bit frozen upon in the kernel. Greg...? There really needs to be some method to do treewide conversions without involving multiple maintainers. It'd be a good topic for a maintainer summit one day.
