linux-kernel - Re: MAINTAINERS: Wrong ordering in VIRTIO BALLOON

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Date:   Tue, 12 May 2020 08:38:11 +0200
From:   David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS: Wrong ordering in VIRTIO BALLOON

On 12.05.20 07:21, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Hi David,
> 
> with your commit 6d6b93b9afd8 ("MAINTAINERS: Add myself as virtio-balloon 
> co-maintainer"), visible on next-20200508, ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f 
> MAINTAINERS complains:
> 
> WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in alphabetic order
> #17982: FILE: MAINTAINERS:17982:
> +F:	include/uapi/linux/virtio_balloon.h
> +F:	include/linux/balloon_compaction.h
> 
> This is due to wrong ordering of the entries in your submission. If you 
> would like me to send you a patch fixing that, please just let me know.
> 
> It is a recent addition to checkpatch.pl to report ordering problems in 
> MAINTAINERS, so you might have not seen that at submission time.

Thanks for the notification Lukas,

b962ee8622d0 ("checkpatch: additional MAINTAINER section entry ordering
checks") is not in Linus' tree yet AFAIKS.

I can see that 3b50142d8528 ("MAINTAINERS: sort field names for all
entries") is upstream. I do wonder if we should just do another batch
update after the checkpatch patch is upstream instead, I guess more will
pile up?

@mst, joe, what do you prefer?

1. I can resend the original patch.
2. Lukas can send a fixup that we might want to squash.
3. We wait until the checkpatch change goes upstream and to a final
batch update.

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb