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From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 08:57:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080704065722.GA22420@digi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org>

Hello Oliver,

Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 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.
This is fine for me, too.  Then I suggest to remove the section

	Note: For the hard of thinking, this list is meant to remain in alphabetical
	order. If you could add yourselves to it in alphabetical order that would be
	so much easier [Ed]

.  That's why I posted before spending time on writing a clever script.

Best regards
Uwe

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-04  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-04  6:34 alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04  6:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-04  6:41   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04  6:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-07-04  6:57   ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
2008-07-04  8:59     ` Paul Mundt
2008-07-04  9:10       ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 12:07         ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 14:02           ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 12:02   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-04 12:06     ` Oliver Neukum
2008-07-04 12:34   ` [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: " Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-04 13:44     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 14:08       ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 13:19         ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-07 18:52           ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 19:18             ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-07 22:37               ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 23:33                 ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-09 20:14     ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-09 20:11   ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-04  8:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König

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