Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:10:23 +0200 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS |
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Hi Paul,
Paul Mundt wrote: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 08:57:22AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > Oliver Neukum wrote: > > > Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-K?nig: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in > > > > the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I > > > > inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest > > > > of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to > > > > choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out > > > > of order[1]. > > > > > > What good does alphabetic ordering? You'll grep it anyway. > > This is fine for me, too. Then I suggest to remove the section > > > > Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical > > order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be > > so much easier [Ed] > > > > . That's why I posted before spending time on writing a clever script. > > > I always interpreted this to mean that the _entries_ are alphabetically > sorted, not the maintainers under each entry. IIRC, Alan has already > cleaned up most of the ordering of the entries through recent patches. That's how I interpret it, too. :-)
Look at
http://www.modarm9.com/git/people/ukleinek/linux-2.6.git?a=commitdiff;h=62110fbc73a9d3a4c7d39706b648b554b517f154#patch1
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Best regards Uwe
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