Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933099Ab3DYWPu (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:15:50 -0400 Received: from mail-da0-f51.google.com ([209.85.210.51]:52852 "EHLO mail-da0-f51.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933063Ab3DYWPt (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Apr 2013 18:15:49 -0400 Message-ID: <5179AB11.90509@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:45 -0700 From: David Daney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "H. Peter Anvin" CC: Borislav Petkov , LKML , X86 ML , Borislav Petkov , David Daney Subject: Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message References: <1366023109-12098-1-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de> <5179A625.1080502@zytor.com> <20130425220518.GC312@pd.tnic> <5179A91A.5080709@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: <5179A91A.5080709@zytor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 24 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/