linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: core: Sort headers alphabetically

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Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:04:48 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc:     Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: core: Sort headers alphabetically

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 06:53:23PM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 19:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 05:20:31PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:45:34PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > > It's rather a gigantic list of heards that is very hard to follow.
> > > > Sorting helps to see what's already included and what's not.
> > > > It improves a maintainability in a long term.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
> > > 
> > > Hi Andy,
> > > 
> > > At the risk of bike shedding, the sort function of Vim, when operating
> > > with the C locale, gives a slightly different order, as experssed by
> > > this incremental diff.
> > > 
> > > I have no objections to your oder, but I'm slightly curious as
> > > to how it came about.
> > 
> > !sort which is external command.
> > 
> > $ locale -k LC_COLLATE
> > collate-nrules=4
> > collate-rulesets=""
> > collate-symb-hash-sizemb=1303
> > collate-codeset="UTF-8"
> 
> I'm unsure this change is worthy. It will make any later fix touching
> the header list more difficult to backport, and I don't see a great
> direct advantage.

As Rasmus put it here
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5eca0ab5-84be-2d8f-e0b3-c9fdfa961826@rasmusvillemoes.dk/
In short term you can argue that it's not beneficial, but in long term it's given
less conflicts.

> Please repost the first patch standalone.

Why to repost, what did I miss? It's available via lore, just run

  b4 am -slt -P _ 20230911154534.4174265-1-andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com

to get it :-)

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko