On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 10:56:38AM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> Michael Chang via Grub-devel <grub-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, May 26, 2022 at 05:07:11PM -0400, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> >> Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> There are no users left of version_find_latest(), version_test_gt(),
> >>> and version_test_numeric(). Remove those unused helper
> >>> functions. Using those helper functions is what caused the quadratic
> >>> sorting performance issues in the first place, so removing them is a
> >>> net win.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoy...@efficios.com>
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Robbie Harwood <rharw...@redhat.com>
> >
> > Hm. This seems to contradict your proposed patch to use distro specific
> > sort by hooking into those functions got removed here.
> >
> >  mkconfig: use distro sorts when available
> >  https://www.mail-archive.com/grub-devel@gnu.org/msg33357.html
> >
> > I'd like to know more your comments about this as those hooks might
> > still be needed or where to keep distribution's sort ?
>
> The series does, yes - both can't be applied as-is.  I'm fine to rebase
> mine, but haven't done it yet.  I don't mind adding them back if I need
> to.
I prefer to drop unused code now and add it back when it is needed.

Daniel

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