Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add fix option for MAINTAINERS_STYLE | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:26:54 -0800 |
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On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:35 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote: > Checkpatch expects entries in MAINTAINERS file in a specific order and > warns if the changes made do not follow the specified order. > > E.g., running checkpatch on commit b33bc2b878e0 ("nexthop: Add entry to > MAINTAINERS") reports this warning: > > WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in > alphabetic order > +F: include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h > +F: include/net/netns/nexthop.h > > Provide a simple fix by swapping the unordered lines, if both the lines > are additions (start with '+')
On second thought, nak.
This fails when there are 3 consecutive misordered lines.
SECTION F: c F: b F: a
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