Re: Clarifying confusion of our variable placement rules caused by cleanup.h

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:17:32 +0100
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > There was variation of this type of nonsense with headers (not only it has
> > to be sorted alphabetically but by length too!)  
> 
> By length it indeed sounds weird, but alphabetical is the natural language
> order everybody learnt from the daycare / school years, so it's properly
> programmed in our deep brain. Having that allows to find easily if anything one
> is interested in is already being included. Also it allows to avoid dup inclusions
> (was there, fixed that for real). So, it's not bad.

Actually, I like the "by length" because its aesthetically easier on the eyes.

Alphabetically is fine, but either one helps in catching duplicate headers.

-- Steve