linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message

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Message-ID: <20130425220518.GC312@pd.tnic>
Date:	Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:05:19 +0200
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 02:54:45PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On some architectures we sort at runtime, on others we sort at build
> time.
>
> Is there any reason for a message at all here?

The original pr_notice was arguably a debugging aid to verify that the
build-time sorting has actually happened. I flipped it because it wasn't
telling us anything interesting and we know that the sorting works -
we've been staring at that message for a couple of kernel releases
already :-)

One possible reason for having it flipped is to encourage runtime
sorting arches to convert to build time sorting.

But silencing this completely is also ok with me - I don't care all that
much.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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