linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] staging: lustre: headers: sort headers affected by obdo move

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Date:   Mon, 12 Dec 2016 14:42:29 +0000
From:   Ben Evans <bevans@...y.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
CC:     "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
        Ben Evans <bevans@...y.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lustre Development List <lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/5] staging: lustre: headers: sort headers affected by
 obdo move

This was done to conform to the Lustre Coding Guidelines.

-Ben

On 12/10/16, 1:14 PM, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
wrote:

>On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 01:05:59PM -0500, James Simmons wrote:
>> From: Ben Evans <bevans@...y.com>
>> 
>> It was found if you sort the headers alphabetically
>> that it reduced patch conflicts. This patch sorts
>> the headers alphabetically and also place linux
>> header first, then uapi header and finally the
>> lustre kernel headers.
>
>I still don't agree, when did you last have a patch conflict with this
>file in the .h section?  And exactly how hard was it to fix it up?
>
>I'm all for cleanups, but really, this is useless.  And I said so the
>last time you sent it...
>
>greg k-h