[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/2] tools: moveconfig: process defconfig files in alphabetical order

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 01:23:24AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> 2016-10-17 5:12 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
> > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 02:17:23AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> >> This will make the log more readable.  The log is not deterministic
> >> in case of parallel processing, though.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> >
> > I'm honestly ambivalent about this since single threaded is basically
> > never the case, right?
> 
> 
> Right.
> If you want to diff two logs, you need to pass -j1 option.
> 
> But, my main motivation is not that.
> You will be able to find the log of boards you are interested in.
> 
> For example, when some boards are listed in "suspicious results"
> at the end of conversion, you may want to check the log
> to see what happened.  If the log is sorted *almost* alphabetically,
> it will be easier to jump there.

I'm still ambivalent.  I 'less' the log and search doesn't care about
order.  And I try and fix one broken board at a time since it's often
the case that N boards will have the same form of thinko.

-- 
Tom
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