linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v4] docs: Explain the desired position of function attributes

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Date:   Sat, 02 Oct 2021 08:22:04 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] docs: Explain the desired position of function
 attributes

On Sat, 2021-10-02 at 12:42 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> In the future, clang-format could have a configuration option to pass
> a sort order, in which case, having the sort order already defined in
> the kernel would definitely be helpful.

It's not so much a sort order so much as it's a positional one.