sort inventory ports listening for more usable reporting
(cherry picked from commit f1296649083740211647ef5a1dc9260ad19d618d)
Revert "sort inventory ports listening for more usable reporting"

This reverts commit 55992966ec6bdab9a1f0859f9e11f853f9059266.

sort() is only available in 3.6, thus would break backward-compat while upgrading from 3.0 or 3.5.