Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:45 -0700 | From | David Daney <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message |
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On 04/25/2013 03:07 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/25/2013 03:05 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> >> One possible reason for having it flipped is to encourage runtime >> sorting arches to convert to build time sorting. >> > > This is actually somewhat valid, plus it is the point in time when > something actually is *happening*. A message saying "nothing happened" > isn't actually all that interesting... >
Good points. As the original author of the whole mess, I don't have a strong preference. Certainly printing the message, that nothing is happening, goes against one of the main reasons for doing the sort in the first place: Speeding up booting.
David Daney
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