On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:31:45PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2012, Viresh Kumar wrote: > > > On 26 November 2012 18:55, Lee Jones <lee.jo...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > > > Why do you need to sort them? Is there _really_ a need? > > > > Many people & maintainers like to have their header files ordered. The > > reason for that is: > > > > If they are not ordered, there is a possibility of adding an header file > > multiple times in a file. This might not do something serious > > when thinking about compilation time or Image size, but adding an header > > file multiple times is simply wrong. > > > > This can't be caught in patch reviews most of the time, as diff may not show > > the earlier inclusion. > > > > That's why i ordered them. And i don't see any harm in doing so. > > I don't see any harm in it, but it's pretty pointless. > > There aren't many maintainers who insist on such things, And I'm not one of those.
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