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From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Mar 2021 16:02:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] ALSA: hda/realtek: Sort alphanumerically the
 SND_PCI_QUIRK() entries.
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
        ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
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On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 3:40 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 14:27:41 +0100,
> Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> >
> > Sort alphanumerically the SND_PCI_QUIRK() entries for better maintenance.
> > No functional change implied.
>
> I'd love to apply this kind of cleanups (and I do sometimes
> partially), but practically seen, this may make the stable backporting
> significantly harder because many quirk patches are backported to the
> very old LTS kernels.  So, unless any specific reason (e.g. some
> entries doubled or wrongly applied) is given, I'd avoid this full
> plastic surgery.

Can we ask people to follow the ordering before patches were applied?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko