Re: test10-pre7

H. Peter Anvin
2000-10-31T19:17:03Z

Followup to: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10010311018180.7083-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>
By author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Does anybody see any problems with it? Basically, we're sidestepping the
> sorting, because neither SCSI nor USB need it. Making the problem simpler
> is always good.
>
> Now, the above won't work for drivers/net, but I think it will work for
> just about anything else. So let's just leave drivers/net alone for now.
> Simplicity is good.
>

I was going to ask to what extent we genuinely need sorting, and if we
might be better off trying to eliminate that need as much as possible.

-hpa
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