linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] Clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option

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Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:45:35 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Mikael Starvik <starvik@...s.com>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Dike <jdike@...toit.com>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@....linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 03:15:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Guys, don't do this.  Either put the new item into a randomly-chosen
>> position or, probably better, alphanumerically sort the list.
>
> I've been telling people to alphanumerically sort Kconfig select
> options for some time, but as normal, no one's listening.

Anyone who cares to sort the existing ones "at the end of the merge window",
and teaches checkpatch to enforce it for new ones?

The next step is #include order...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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