On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 20:26 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:35 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> > Checkpatch expects entries in MAINTAINERS file in a specific order and
> > warns if the changes made do not follow the specified order.
> >
> > E.g., running checkpatch on commit b33bc2b878e0 ("nexthop: Add entry to
> > MAINTAINERS") reports this warning:
> >
> > WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in
> > alphabetic order
> > +F: include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
> > +F: include/net/netns/nexthop.h
> >
> > Provide a simple fix by swapping the unordered lines, if both the lines
> > are additions (start with '+')
>
> On second thought, nak.
>
> This fails when there are 3 consecutive misordered lines.
>
> SECTION
> F: c
> F: b
> F: a
>
btw:
scripts/parse-maintainers.pl already does this reordering properly so
this particular --fix addition isn't all that useful.
