The patch titled lib: revise list_sort() header comment has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was lib-revise-list_sort-header-comment.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: lib: revise list_sort() header comment From: Don Mullis <don.mullis@xxxxxxxxx> Clarify and correct header comment of list_sort(). Signed-off-by: Don Mullis <don.mullis@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- lib/list_sort.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/list_sort.c~lib-revise-list_sort-header-comment lib/list_sort.c --- a/lib/list_sort.c~lib-revise-list_sort-header-comment +++ a/lib/list_sort.c @@ -81,17 +81,18 @@ static void merge_and_restore_back_links } /** - * list_sort - sort a list. - * @priv: private data, passed to @cmp + * list_sort - sort a list + * @priv: private data, opaque to list_sort(), passed to @cmp * @head: the list to sort * @cmp: the elements comparison function * - * This function implements "merge sort" which has O(nlog(n)) complexity. - * The list is sorted in ascending order. + * This function implements "merge sort", which has O(nlog(n)) + * complexity. * - * The comparison function @cmp is supposed to return a negative value if @a is - * less than @b, and a positive value if @a is greater than @b. If @a and @b - * are equivalent, then it does not matter what this function returns. + * The comparison function @cmp must return a negative value if @a + * should sort before @b, and a positive value if @a should sort after + * @b. If @a and @b are equivalent, and their original relative + * ordering is to be preserved, @cmp must return 0. */ void list_sort(void *priv, struct list_head *head, int (*cmp)(void *priv, struct list_head *a, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from don.mullis@xxxxxxxxx are -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html