Re: treewide replacement of fallthrough comments with "fallthrough" macro (was Re: [RFC PATCH] compiler_attributes.h: Add 'fallthrough' pseudo keyword for switch/case use)

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2019-09-16 at 15:19 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 11:15:53AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > With that out of the way, yes, let's do a mass conversion. As mentioned
> > before, I think "fallthrough;" should be used here (to match "break;").
> > Let's fork the C language. :)
> 
> FWIW, last week I asked Linus at the maintainer's summit which he
> preferred ("__fallthrough" or "fallthrough") and he said "fallthrough".

Nice.  I think that's better style/taste.

> Joe, if you've still got the series ready, do you want to send it for
> this merge window before -rc1 gets cut?

The first bits that add fallthrough and converts the one existing
use of fallthrough as a label can be sent now.  I'll do that in
a few days as I'm not able to do that right now.

Sending any actual comment conversion patches before -rc1 might
require changes in already queued up and tested patches

I do think a scripted conversion by major subsystem/directory
might be a better mechanism than individual patches, especially
if applied directly before releasing what will be -rc1.