Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262024AbVAYRXt (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:23:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262028AbVAYRUX (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:20:23 -0500 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41193 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262029AbVAYRRD (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jan 2005 12:17:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [patch 1/13] Qsort From: Andreas Gruenbacher To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Olaf Kirch , Andi Kleen , Nathan Scott , Mike Waychison , Jesper Juhl , Felipe Alfaro Solana , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Buck Huppmann , Neil Brown , "Andries E. Brouwer" , Andrew Morton , Tim Hockin In-Reply-To: <1106672637.11449.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> References: <20050122203326.402087000@blunzn.suse.de> <41F570F3.3020306@sun.com> <20050125065157.GA8297@muc.de> <200501251112.46476.agruen@suse.de> <20050125120023.GA8067@muc.de> <20050125120507.GH19199@suse.de> <1106671920.11449.11.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> <1106672028.9607.33.camel@winden.suse.de> <1106672637.11449.24.camel@lade.trondhjem.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: SUSE Labs Message-Id: <1106673415.9607.36.camel@winden.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:16:56 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 916 Lines: 26 On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:03, Trond Myklebust wrote: > ty den 25.01.2005 Klokka 17:53 (+0100) skreiv Andreas Gruenbacher: > > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 17:52, Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > So here's an iconoclastic question or two: > > > > > > Why can't clients sort the list in userland, before they call down to > > > the kernel? > > > > Tell that to Sun Microsystems. > > Whatever Sun chooses to do or not do changes nothing to the question of > why our client would want to do a quicksort in the kernel. Well, it determines what we must accept, both on the server side and the client side. Cheers, -- Andreas Gruenbacher SUSE Labs, SUSE LINUX GMBH - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/