Re: [PATCH] net: sctp: Rename fallthrough label to unhandled

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Aug 03 2019 - 14:01:28 EST


On Fri, 2019-08-02 at 16:19 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 10:47:34 -0700
>
> > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 08:16 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 04:32:43AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 07:19 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> >> > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 10:04:37PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> >> > > > fallthrough may become a pseudo reserved keyword so this only use of
> >> > > > fallthrough is better renamed to allow it.
> >
> > Can you or any other maintainer apply this patch
> > or ack it so David Miller can apply it?
>
> I, like others, don't like the lack of __ in the keyword. It's kind of
> rediculous the problems it creates to pollute the global namespace like
> that and yes also inconsistent with other shorthands for builtins.

Rejected?

I think that's inappropriate.

As coded, it's nothing like a fallthrough and
the rename to unhandled is more descriptive.