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On Sat, 2021-10-02 at 12:42 +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> In the future, clang-format could have a configuration option to pass
> a sort order, in which case, having the sort order already defined in
> the kernel would definitely be helpful.

It's not so much a sort order so much as it's a positional one.