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SubjectRe: [PATCH v1 1/1] ALSA: hda/realtek: Sort alphanumerically the SND_PCI_QUIRK() entries.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 15:22:22 +0100,
Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 3:40 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:27:41 +0100,
> > Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > >
> > > Sort alphanumerically the SND_PCI_QUIRK() entries for better maintenance.
> > > No functional change implied.
> >
> > I'd love to apply this kind of cleanups (and I do sometimes
> > partially), but practically seen, this may make the stable backporting
> > significantly harder because many quirk patches are backported to the
> > very old LTS kernels. So, unless any specific reason (e.g. some
> > entries doubled or wrongly applied) is given, I'd avoid this full
> > plastic surgery.
>
> Btw, can we apply the hunks that are against the lines under #if 0?
> At least it will reduce the chaos rate in the file w/o worrying that
> people will add entries there to backport.

If the #if-0-block causes a problem, we can drop it, too. There are
two big ones, and those have been disabled for almost a decade
already, so it's quite safe to drop them.


Takashi

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