linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:13:56 -0800
From:   Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@...co.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        James McMechan <james.w.mcmechan@...il.com>,
        initramfs@...r.kernel.org, Victor Kamensky <kamensky@...co.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
        xe-linux-external@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description

Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2018-01-25 13:02:49)
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@...co.com> wrote:
> 
> > For initramfs nanoseconds field can be ignored during
> > unpacking.
> 
> That sounds like a pointless microoptimization. Most likely we won't ever
> need the nanoseconds in the initramfs, but it's trivial to just copy them
> into the right field, and not adding that one source line would probably
> involve adding a one-line source comment to explain the omission ;-)

Agree.