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Re: [PATCH] fix qsort breakage

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix qsort breakage
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 08:11:49 +0100
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <3D221C40.CFA7C46E@xxxxxxxxxx>; from akpm@xxxxxxxxxx on Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:33:52PM -0700
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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 02:33:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> qsort should take gfp_flags as an argument. Or not perform any allocation,
> as you've described.

I've patched it up to the latest glibc version that doesn't require any
allocations.

> (It'd be nice to stick that qsort in lib/qsort.c, rather than making
> it XFS-private, btw).

*nod* - the problem is that this would make the core changes of XFS bigger
again.  Maybe you find a use for it in 2.5 and can send it to Linus ;)


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