Re: [PATCH net-next v1 2/2] net: core: Sort headers alphabetically

[Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>]

On Tue, 2023-09-12 at 19:35 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 05:20:31PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 06:45:34PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > It's rather a gigantic list of heards that is very hard to follow.
> > > Sorting helps to see what's already included and what's not.
> > > It improves a maintainability in a long term.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Hi Andy,
> > 
> > At the risk of bike shedding, the sort function of Vim, when operating
> > with the C locale, gives a slightly different order, as experssed by
> > this incremental diff.
> > 
> > I have no objections to your oder, but I'm slightly curious as
> > to how it came about.
> 
> !sort which is external command.
> 
> $ locale -k LC_COLLATE
> collate-nrules=4
> collate-rulesets=""
> collate-symb-hash-sizemb=1303
> collate-codeset="UTF-8"

I'm unsure this change is worthy. It will make any later fix touching
the header list more difficult to backport, and I don't see a great
direct advantage.

Please repost the first patch standalone.

Thanks,

Paolo