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

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Message-ID: <5179AB6D.8040504@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:17:17 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.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 03:15 PM, David Daney wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Yes, not to mention making early trap overrides doable.

	-hpa


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