Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre7 | Date | 31 Oct 2000 11:16:25 -0800 |
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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.
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