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Message-ID: <ZQCePNVobAeCVUjI@smile.fi.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:22:04 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Cc:     Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <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 10:07:35AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 10:05 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
> > 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:

...

> > > 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.
> 
> I agree with Paolo.

I see.

> This is just code churn.
> The includes will become unsorted eventually.
> Headers might get renamed, split, etc.
> Keeping things sorted is a headache.

Keeping the mess is simpler, I agree. :-(

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko