linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add fix option for MAINTAINERS

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Message-ID: <1b9c5353c6318cc7a4e013886012739e6627d82d.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:26:54 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch: add fix option for MAINTAINERS_STYLE

On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:35 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> Checkpatch expects entries in MAINTAINERS file in a specific order and
> warns if the changes made do not follow the specified order.
> 
> E.g., running checkpatch on commit b33bc2b878e0 ("nexthop: Add entry to
> MAINTAINERS") reports this warning:
> 
> WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in
> alphabetic order
> +F:	include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
> +F:	include/net/netns/nexthop.h
> 
> Provide a simple fix by swapping the unordered lines, if both the lines
> are additions (start with '+')

On second thought, nak.

This fails when there are 3 consecutive misordered lines.

SECTION
F:	c
F:	b
F:	a