From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: "Uwe Kleine-König" <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: alphabetic ordering of MAINTAINERS
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 22:11:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080709201123.GB11006@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807040852.27809.oliver@neukum.org>
On Fri 2008-07-04 08:52:27, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Freitag 04 Juli 2008 08:34:55 schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I wanted to add an entry to MAINTAINERS and while doing it I saw that in
> > the corresponding region the alphabetic ordering is broken. Then I
> > inteded to fix that up for a trivial patch. Next was to check the rest
> > of the file and there are so much misorderings that it's not sensible to
> > choose the trivial path anymore as there are currently 114 entries out
> > of order[1].
>
> What good does alphabetic ordering? You'll grep it anyway.
Actually alphabetic numberic sucks. It would be nice to group entries
by subsystem, so you have
networking
network drivers
wireless network drivers
iwl3945
...because sometimes grep is hard. Try greping for ALSA.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-09 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-04 6:34 Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 6:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-04 6:41 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 6:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-07-04 6:57 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 8:59 ` Paul Mundt
2008-07-04 9:10 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 12:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-07-04 14:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 12:02 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-07-04 12:06 ` Oliver Neukum
2008-07-04 12:34 ` [RFC] MAINTAINERS service, was: " Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-04 13:44 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-07-04 14:08 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 13:19 ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-07 18:52 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 19:18 ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-07 22:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-07-07 23:33 ` Stefan Richter
2008-07-09 20:14 ` Pavel Machek
2008-07-09 20:11 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-07-04 8:50 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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