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

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Message-ID: <20121004194648.GB4625@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Thu, 4 Oct 2012 20:46:48 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
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 04, 2012 at 09:45:35PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 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?

Well, I'll certainly do that for ARM... but how long it'll stay like
that will be very hit and miss...
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