Re: [PATCH] extable: Flip the sorting message

[David Daney]

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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