Re: [PATCH 1/2] ARM: config: sort select statements alphanumerically

Russell King - ARM Linux
2012-10-12T14:41:20Z

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 04:04:28PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Russell King
> <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > As suggested by Andrew Morton:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Guys, don't do this. Either put the new item into a randomly-chosen
> > position or, probably better, alphanumerically sort the list.
> >
> > lets sort all our select statements alphanumerically. This commit was
> > created by the following perl:
>
> I applied this and tried to configure the Nomadik defconfig,
> and I get this, sadly:

Yes, I've just fixed those. Unfortunately, the patch is soo large that
it trips the mailing list size limit, and has to be manually approved,
so I'm not sure I can call on the list maintainers again today to do the
approval thing.