Re: [PATCH v1] tools clang-format: Add a tools clang-format that overrides some kernel behaviors

[Ian Rogers]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2026 at 10:11 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Tue, 2026-04-07 at 09:55 -0700, Ian Rogers wrote:
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> > Sorting headers is desirable to avoid issues like duplicate includes.
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> Perhaps.
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> Some others prefer reverse-christmas-tree by length ordering for #includes
> though I think it's poor style.

Thanks Joe. I second not switching to a reverse-christmas-tree style :-)

If this patch is okay, could we bring it in through the perf tree?
Namhyung/Arnaldo, are you okay with doing this? Being able to easily
`git clang-format` is useful for my work in perf, and the motivating
conversation occurred on linux-perf-users.

Thanks,
Ian