Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS

Oliver Neukum
2008-07-04T12:06:20Z

Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 14:02:49 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
> 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).

If you can come up with a rule for naming a driver, yes.

Regards
Oliver