Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 13:52:35 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
       Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>,
       Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] sort: Introduce generic list_sort function
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> > Also it would seem cleaner to have it in a own file.
> 
> That might make sense if we had a large number of generic sort
> functions and it was difficult to tell the code apart, but we've
> only got 2 right now....

I was more thinking of the case that it can be easily made a lib-y
and then eliminated by the linker on non modular kernels if not needed
(unfortunately that would require putting the EXPORT_SYMBOL somewhere else)

-Andi
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