Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:02:49 +0200 |
| |
On Fre, 2008-07-04 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: [...] > > 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.
If two (or more) people submit patches to add a maintainer entry, is is less likely to conflict. And duplicates are more easily detected (without tools).
Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services
-- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |