From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>,
David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:15:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5179AB11.90509@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5179A91A.5080709@zytor.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-25 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-15 10:51 [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message Borislav Petkov
2013-04-15 11:42 ` [tip:x86/asm] " tip-bot for Borislav Petkov
2013-04-25 21:54 ` [PATCH] " H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-25 22:05 ` Borislav Petkov
2013-04-25 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-04-25 22:15 ` David Daney [this message]
2013-04-25 22:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=5179AB11.90509@gmail.com \
--to=ddaney.cavm@gmail.com \
--cc=bp@alien8.de \
--cc=bp@suse.de \
--cc=david.daney@cavium.com \
--cc=hpa@zytor.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=x86@kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.