On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 09:35 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> Checkpatch expects entries in MAINTAINERS file in a specific order and
> warns if the changes made do not follow the specified order.
>
> E.g., running checkpatch on commit b33bc2b878e0 ("nexthop: Add entry to
> MAINTAINERS") reports this warning:
>
> WARNING: Misordered MAINTAINERS entry - list file patterns in
> alphabetic order
> +F: include/uapi/linux/nexthop.h
> +F: include/net/netns/nexthop.h
>
> Provide a simple fix by swapping the unordered lines, if both the lines
> are additions (start with '+')
On second thought, nak.
This fails when there are 3 consecutive misordered lines.
SECTION
F: c
F: b
F: a
