Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 17 Oct 2015 12:36:06 -0700 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order |
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On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 09:14:34PM +0200, Alexander Holler wrote: > Am 17.10.2015 um 21:08 schrieb Linus Torvalds: > >On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> 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.
Again, parallelizing does not solve anything, and causes more problems _and_ makes things take longer. Try it, we have done it in the past and proven this, it's pretty easy to test :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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