Re: [PATCH v2 01/15] Documentation: add newcx initramfs format description

From: Taras Kondratiuk
Date: Thu Jan 25 2018 - 17:23:34 EST


Quoting Arnd Bergmann (2018-01-25 13:02:49)
> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 9:26 PM, Taras Kondratiuk <takondra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > For initramfs nanoseconds field can be ignored during
> > unpacking.
>
> That sounds like a pointless microoptimization. Most likely we won't ever
> need the nanoseconds in the initramfs, but it's trivial to just copy them
> into the right field, and not adding that one source line would probably
> involve adding a one-line source comment to explain the omission ;-)

Agree.