Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] Input: goodix - sort includes alphabetically

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/9] Input: goodix - sort includes alphabetically
> > 
> > On Mon 2015-09-07 17:36:15, Irina Tirdea wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c | 12 ++++++------
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Don't.
> > 
> > Yes, we sometimes sort includes... to avoid patch rejects.
> > 
> > This is guaranteed to cause rejects.
> > 
> > If we do sort them, we use "longest-first" usually.
> > 
> 
> When using random order, I've been told by reviewers that my ordering
> is wrong [1], but I could not figure out what the "right" ordering is in order to apply.
> I did not find any mention of how to sort includes in  Documentation/CodingStyle,
> but I've seen patches in the kernel that fix random ordering by sorting them
> alphabetically [2].

Ok, I have seen this more often:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/28/99
 
> However, I do not feel strongly about this so I can drop this patch.

Well, its really nit picking.

										Pavel
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