RE: linux-next: build failure after merge of the net-next tree

From: David Laight
Date: Wed Dec 18 2013 - 06:09:12 EST


> > And sort(1) is annoying in that it doesn't do in-place sort; you'll end
> > up with empty files if you try the naive thing.
> >
> > Worse most of those Kbuild files include other random garbage, which
> > makes automated sorting harder still.
> >
> > So unless there's a sane and easy way to keep it sorted; I'm going to
> > ignore that rule.
>
> Not keeping them sorted causes merge conflicts and duplicate/missing
> entries.

Edit in vi put cursor on the first line to be sorted and type !}sort
(assuming there is a nice blank line at the end).

David

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