netdev - Re: [PATCH] ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init

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Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:26:38 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arjan@...radead.org
Cc:	linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init

From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:19:52 -0800

> ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init
> 
> this patch flips the order in which sata and network drivers are initialized.
> 
> SATA probing takes quite a bit of time, and with the asynchronous infrastructure
> other drivers that run after it can execute in parallel. Network drivers do tend
> to take some real time talking to the hardware, so running these later is
> a good thing (the sata probe then runs concurrent)
> 
> This saves about 15% of my kernels boot time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>

I have no problem with this:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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