From ebe8b54134314cc31331f6e26f42276cd947d1df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 16:16:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] correctly name the Shell sort
As per http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/shellsort.html, this should be
referred to as a Shell sort. Shell-Metzner is a misnomer.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Dickman <didickman@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
kernel/sys.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index f64e97cabe2536..f006632c2ba70c 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1195,7 +1195,7 @@ static int groups_from_user(struct group_info *group_info,
return 0;
}
-/* a simple shell-metzner sort */
+/* a simple Shell sort */
static void groups_sort(struct group_info *group_info)
{
int base, max, stride;
--
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