[PATCH] arm64: cpucaps: Remove stale comment about keeping capabilities sorted

Fuad Tabba fuad.tabba at linux.dev
Thu Jul 23 06:04:38 PDT 2026


On Thu, 23 Jul 2026 at 14:02, Will Deacon <will at kernel.org> wrote:
>
> From: Will Deacon <willdeacon at google.com>
>
> There is no functional requirement to keep the entries in arm64's
> tools/cpucaps file sorted alphabetically and, in fact, they have fallen
> out of order over time. Given that only the arm64 tree touches this file,
> just remove the stale comment and accept that we're collectively not
> very good at the alphabet.
>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz at kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>

Reviewed-by: Fuad Tabba <fuad.tabba at linux.dev>

Cheers,
/fuad

> ---
>
> Follow-up from the discussion at:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260519092243.7278-1-will@kernel.org
>
>  arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> index 9b85a84f6fd4..3fcac789b0a4 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> +++ b/arch/arm64/tools/cpucaps
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>  #
> -# Internal CPU capabilities constants, keep this list sorted
> +# Internal CPU capabilities constants
>
>  ALWAYS_BOOT
>  ALWAYS_SYSTEM
> --
> 2.55.0.229.g6434b31f56-goog
>
>



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