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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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.

	-hpa
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