On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Russell King
[off-list ref] wrote:

As suggested by Andrew Morton:

  This is a pet peeve of mine.  Any time there's a long list of items
  (header file inclusions, kconfig entries, array initalisers, etc) and
  someone wants to add a new item, they *always* go and stick it at the
  end of the list.

  Guys, don't do this.  Either put the new item into a randomly-chosen
  position or, probably better, alphanumerically sort the list.

lets sort all our select statements alphanumerically.  This commit was
created by the following perl:

I applied this and tried to configure the Nomadik defconfig,
and I get this, sadly:

make -f Makefile ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
KBUILD_OUTPUT=/var/linus/linux/build-nomadik nhk8815_defconfig
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/linus/linux'
  GEN     /var/linus/linux/build-nomadik/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:29: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:28: unknown option "Saying"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:31: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:30: unknown option "The"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:31: unknown option "There"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:32: unknown option "prototypes"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:35: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:34: unknown option "http"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:37: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:36: unknown option "If"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:37: unknown option "Server"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:18: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:3: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:3: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/Kconfig:245: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:17: invalid statement
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:632: unexpected end statement
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:634: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:633: unexpected option "select"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:634: unexpected option "select"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:733: unexpected end statement
arch/arm/Kconfig:1416: unexpected end statement
make[3]: *** [nhk8815_defconfig] Error 1
make[2]: *** [nhk8815_defconfig] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/linus/linux'
make: *** [config-base] Error 2make -f Makefile ARCH=arm
CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabi-
KBUILD_OUTPUT=/var/linus/linux/build-nomadik nhk8815_defconfig
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/linus/linux'
  GEN     /var/linus/linux/build-nomadik/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:29: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:28: unknown option "Saying"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:31: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:30: unknown option "The"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:31: unknown option "There"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:32: unknown option "prototypes"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:35: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:34: unknown option "http"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:37: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:36: unknown option "If"
arch/arm/mach-footbridge/Kconfig:37: unknown option "Server"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:18: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:3: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:3: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/Kconfig:245: missing end statement for this entry
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:17: invalid statement
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:632: unexpected end statement
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:634: syntax error
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:633: unexpected option "select"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:634: unexpected option "select"
arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig:733: unexpected end statement
arch/arm/Kconfig:1416: unexpected end statement
make[3]: *** [nhk8815_defconfig] Error 1
make[2]: *** [nhk8815_defconfig] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/linus/linux'
make: *** [config-base] Error 2

Yours,
Linus Walleij