Re: [PATCH] cvt_fallthrough: A tool to convert /* fallthrough */ comments to fallthrough;

From: Gustavo A. R. Silva
Date: Sun Mar 08 2020 - 15:11:45 EST




On 3/8/20 03:58, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 01:11 -0600, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
>> On 3/8/20 01:02, Joe Perches wrote:
>>>> or if you are suggesting that
>>>> the maintainers will have the predisposition of applying
>>>> patches that will modify their coding style and then go and
>>>> willingly fix that. I doubt the latter, though.
>>>
>>> If any do actually use the script, I guess we'll see.
>>>
>> Yep. In the meantime is a NACK from me for this version
>> of your patch.
>
> Generic code reformatters of comments to code are not
> particularly common.
>

I might not be getting my point across. It's no a matter of
reformatting something. It's the opposite, it's a matter of
not messing (removing existing blank lines) with the current
format and merely focusing on replacing comments.

--
Gustavo