From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 23:16:19 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [PATCH] correctly name the Shell sort
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~43293
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ebe8b54134314cc31331f6e26f42276cd947d1df;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

[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>
---

diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index f64e97cabe25..f006632c2ba7 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;