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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>,
	Philipp Reisner <philipp.reisner@linbit.com>,
	drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com, linux-block@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drbd: Avoid Clang warning about pointless switch statment
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2018 06:29:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e5a59a80-791a-2c42-9820-31e1fe86d72f@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181218092202.GJ5026@soda.linbit>

On 12/18/18 2:22 AM, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:29:38AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> Hi Lars and Philipp,
>>>
>>> Could you please make sure that this patch and the other one I sent make
>>> it into 4.21/5.0? I am not sure when you were planning on sending the
>>> pull request to Jens that you mentioned in the other thread but I've
>>> noticed most maintainers typically send their requests for the impending
>>> merge window around -rc7 or so and I wanted to make sure it was on your
>>> radar.
> 
> I'm sorry.
> From my point of view, "fixing the pointless switch" is just "pointless",
> so it (again) fell through.  I get it that it is important to others,
> and getting rid of Clang warnings is a good thing.  So sorry again.
> 
>> It needs to get here now, but drbd hasn't really sent anything in for
>> about a year,
> 
> Last actual fix was 2018-06-25 64dafbc9530c drbd: fix access after free
> so almost six month, yes.

It just dropped from its usual cadence of regular updates.

>> so I'm starting to doubt how maintained it is at this
>> point.
> 
> Oh, it is maintained.  It is just happens to be "stable".
> We don't add new features there,
> and I'm currently not aware of any misbehavior.

Well, I guess that's good news then :-)

> I'll prepare a pull request containing this,
> the other Clang warning patch from Nathan,
> and possibly other small stuff that accumulated,
> if I can find any, and send that out later today.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder,

Thank.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2018-12-18 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-02 17:14 [PATCH RESEND] drbd: avoid clang warning about pointless switch statement Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-04 19:18 ` Lars Ellenberg
2018-10-04 19:22   ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-10-04 20:09 ` [PATCH v2] drbd: Avoid Clang warning about pointless switch statment Nathan Chancellor
2018-12-17 17:24   ` Nathan Chancellor
2018-12-17 17:29     ` Jens Axboe
2018-12-18  9:22       ` Lars Ellenberg
2018-12-18 13:29         ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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