From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751592AbbJQTOm (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:14:42 -0400 Received: from h1446028.stratoserver.net ([85.214.92.142]:37054 "EHLO mail.ahsoftware.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750759AbbJQTOk (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:14:40 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order To: Linus Torvalds References: <1445102067-11519-1-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <1445102067-11519-5-git-send-email-holler@ahsoftware.de> <5622956F.80408@ahsoftware.de> <56229B0B.80100@ahsoftware.de> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Russell King , Grant Likely From: Alexander Holler Message-ID: <56229E1A.8010803@ahsoftware.de> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2015 21:14:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 17.10.2015 um 21:08 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Alexander Holler wrote: >> >> That isn't a flag day thing. It's a config option everyone can turn on and >> off whenever he wants. > > That's a flag-day thing. We've done it (drm comes to mind - several times). > > I'm disappointed, because I _know_ I pointed you in the direction of > stable sorting about a month ago. I really had hoped you'd have taken > that into account. It's impossible to take it into account because I don't want to miss the parallelize functionality. And without that, all the stuff doesn't offer enough benefits to be worse the effort but just adds some time necessary to do the sorting. It might solve the deferred probe problems, but without much benefit. Regards, Alexander Holler