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

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Message-ID: <5179AB11.90509@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:45 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
CC:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	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 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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