Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754403AbYGDMDS (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:03:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752766AbYGDMDF (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:03:05 -0400 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:3190 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752764AbYGDMDF (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:03:05 -0400 Subject: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Oliver Neukum Cc: Uwe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org> References: <20080704063455.GA13999@digi.com> <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: Firmix Software GmbH Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:02:49 +0200 Message-Id: <1215172969.25343.32.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.341 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.341 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.341 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Firmix-Envelope-From: X-Firmix-Envelope-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1168 Lines: 28 On Fre, 2008-07-04 at 08:52 +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: [...] > > 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. If two (or more) people submit patches to add a maintainer entry, is is less likely to conflict. And duplicates are more easily detected (without tools). Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services -- 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/