Re: [PATCH] make search faster by first trying without module autoloading

[Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Robert Millan<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 05:58:20PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
>> Hello. When search encounters an unknown filesystem or filesystem
>> without partition it triggers fs module autoload which takes
>> noticeable time. To improve the situation I propose (after discussing
>> with Robert Millan) to first search without autoloading modules if we
>> need to find only one device (with --set ) and retry with autoloading
>> if without autoloading the search failed. Additionally I modify
>> grub-mkconfig to load correct module manually before issuing search to
>> decrease booting time if filesystem is different that our boot one.
>
> Looks good to me.  Also, I think Yves suggestion is a good idea.
>
In this case 'var' stands for a 'variable' which is sensible in this
case since it's environment variable name.
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