This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

.gitignore: sort normal pattern rules alphabetically

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: gitignore-sort-normal-pattern-rules-alphabetically.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 1377dd3e29878b8f5d9f5c9000975f50a428a0cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 00:33:45 +0900 Subject: .gitignore: sort normal pattern rules alphabetically

From: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com

commit 1377dd3e29878b8f5d9f5c9000975f50a428a0cd upstream.

We are having more and more ignore patterns. Sort the list alphabetically. We will easily catch duplicated patterns if any.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Rob Herring robh@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- .gitignore | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

--- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -7,38 +7,38 @@ # command after changing this file, to see if there are # any tracked files which get ignored after the change. # -# Normal rules +# Normal rules (sorted alphabetically) # .* +*.a +*.bin +*.bz2 +*.c.[012]*.* +*.dwo +*.elf +*.gcno +*.gz +*.i +*.ko +*.ll +*.lst +*.lz4 +*.lzma +*.lzo +*.mod.c *.o *.o.* -*.a +*.order +*.patch *.s -*.ko *.so *.so.dbg -*.mod.c -*.i -*.lst +*.su *.symtypes -*.order -*.elf -*.bin *.tar -*.gz -*.bz2 -*.lzma *.xz -*.lz4 -*.lzo -*.patch -*.gcno -*.ll -modules.builtin Module.symvers -*.dwo -*.su -*.c.[012]*.* +modules.builtin

# # Top-level generic files

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yamada.masahiro@socionext.com are

queue-4.14/gitignore-move-.dtb-and-.dtb.s-patterns-to-the-top-level-.gitignore.patch queue-4.14/kbuild-rpm-pkg-keep-spec-file-until-make-mrproper.patch queue-4.14/gitignore-sort-normal-pattern-rules-alphabetically.patch