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 11:52:00 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     James Simmons <jsimmons@...radead.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ben Evans <bevans@...y.com>,
        "devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
        Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.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

On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 19:41 +0000, James Simmons wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 17:34 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
[]
> > http://wiki.lustre.org/Lustre_Style_Guide_Includes
> > 
> > There is no single mandated code style for this.
> > Some people like reverse christmas tree.
> > 
> > Whatever...
> > 
> Sigh, Sayre's law.

<chuckle>

> I went looking to see what the offical
> policy is for this and found nothing. If this is really 
> important can we then place an offical policy on how
> headers are added to a C file in CodingStyle and add
> something to checkpatch to detect incorrect patches.
> Lets burn down this bike shed once and for all. 

g'luck with that.

David Miller might like to have a word with you too.