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

[Masahiro Yamada]

2016-10-19 4:25 GMT+09:00 Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>:
> 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.

OK, fine.

Please drop this patch.

I sent v2 only for 1/2.



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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada