From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:57:03 +0000
Subject: [KJ] [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-bk1 1/1] correctly name the Shell sort
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As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be referred to
as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>

--- linux-2.6.12-rc1-bk1/kernel/sys.c	2005-03-21 01:53:02.296875000 -0500
+++ linux/kernel/sys.c	2005-03-21 03:24:09.156250000 -0500
@@ -1194,7 +1194,7 @@
  	return 0;
  }

-/* a simple shell-metzner sort */
+/* a simple Shell sort */
  static void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
  {
  	int base, max, stride;

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