Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756833AbYGDG5g (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:57:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753325AbYGDG51 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:57:27 -0400 Received: from mail29.messagelabs.com ([216.82.249.147]:61339 "EHLO mail29.messagelabs.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753042AbYGDG51 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 02:57:27 -0400 X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com X-Msg-Ref: server-13.tower-29.messagelabs.com!1215154646!18038111!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.5.12.14.2; banners=-,-,- X-Originating-IP: [66.77.174.14] Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:57:22 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= To: Oliver Neukum CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS Message-ID: <20080704065722.GA22420@digi.com> References: <20080704063455.GA13999@digi.com> <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Jul 2008 06:57:22.0504 (UTC) FILETIME=[35615C80:01C8DDA3] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1346 Lines: 34 Hello Oliver, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-K?nig: > > Hello, > > > > I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in > > the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I > > inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest > > of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to > > choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out > > of order[1]. > > What good does alphabetic ordering? You'll grep it anyway. This is fine for me, too. Then I suggest to remove the section Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be so much easier [Ed] . That's why I posted before spending time on writing a clever script. Best regards Uwe -- Uwe Kleine-K?nig, Software Engineer Digi International GmbH Branch Breisach, K?ferstrasse 8, 79206 Breisach, Germany Tax: 315/5781/0242 / VAT: DE153662976 / Reg. Amtsgericht Dortmund HRB 13962 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/