linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries in database for VSPRINTF

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Date:   Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:51:29 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
Cc:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] MAINTAINERS: Sort entries in database for VSPRINTF

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 03:21:55PM +0100, Petr Mladek wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> 
> On Tue 2020-01-28 16:34:25, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Run parse-maintainers.pl and choose VSPRINTF record. Fix it accordingly.
> 
> Does this produce any visible error or warning anywhere, please?

Not for the moment.
Nevertheless, there is an initial motivation behind this [1,2].


> checkpatch.pl does not warn about it.
> 
> Also the order does not look defined in the file. When I run
> parse-maintainers.pl on the entire MAINTAINERS file:

See [2] for the details.

>  MAINTAINERS | 5584 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 2787 insertions(+), 2797 deletions(-)
> 
> The file has 18545 lines. It means that huge amount of entries
> do not follow the order.

Yes, but it's getting better.

[1]: 7683e9e52925 ("Properly alphabetize MAINTAINERS file")
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFy3naVgbRubhjfq7k4CcSiFOEdQNkNwHTLDLmepECu9yA@mail.gmail.com/

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko