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From:   Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 11 Oct 2019 20:01:42 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] treewide: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo-keyword
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hi Linus,

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 6:30 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 9:46 AM Joe Perches <joe@perches.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