Re: [PATCH 1/4] Clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option

[Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 11:15:05PM +0100, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed,  3 Oct 2012 17:44:23 +0100
> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > This patch introduces HAVE_UID16 config option and selects it in
> > corresponding architecture Kconfig files. UID16 now only depends on
> > HAVE_UID16.
> 
> patching file arch/arm/Kconfig
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 49.
...
> This is a pet peeve of mine.  Any time there's a long list of items
> (header file inclusions, kconfig entries, array initalisers, etc) and
> someone wants to add a new item, they *always* go and stick it at the
> end of the list.
> 
> Which is exactly where everyone else applies their modifications.  The
> whole thing is carefully set up to maximise the number of conflicts.
> 
> Guys, don't do this.  Either put the new item into a randomly-chosen
> position or, probably better, alphanumerically sort the list.

I will repost a v2 with randomly chosen position. Sorting is better but
it would cause even more conflicts at this stage. It would be suitable
for a later -rc clean-up though.

-- 
Catalin