From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?=) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 20:52:25 +0200 Subject: The Alphabet (or, the sorting of Kconfig symbols) In-Reply-To: References: <20140404111647.GZ7528@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20140408185225.GU29751@pengutronix.de> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 04:24:27AM -0700, Grant Likely wrote: > On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:16 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > > For those who don't know it, the order of letters in the alphabet is: > > > > A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z > > > > and we use this order to determine the position of "select" entries in > > Kconfig files. We do that so that we can reduce conflicts. Conflicts > > such as these kinds of rubbish: > > Equally applies to #include ordering. With #includes there might be exceptions though because of dependencies between headers. I don't know how common these are today, I didn't have had dependency problems for some time now, but I wouldn't want checkpatch to treat the order of #includes as error, while for Kconfig it's fine. Best regards Uwe -- Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K?nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |