Re: [PATCH 04/14] init: deps: order network interfaces by link order

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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