Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message

David Daney
2013-04-25T22:15:50Z

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