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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Clean up the long arch list for the UID16 config option
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 21:45:35 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
<linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 03:15:05PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Guys, don't do this.  Either put the new item into a randomly-chosen
>> position or, probably better, alphanumerically sort the list.
>
> I've been telling people to alphanumerically sort Kconfig select
> options for some time, but as normal, no one's listening.

Anyone who cares to sort the existing ones "at the end of the merge window",
and teaches checkpatch to enforce it for new ones?

The next step is #include order...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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