From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
hch@caldera.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Mckenney <paul.mckenney@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.10pre7aa1
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:49:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010911154919.Z715@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010911130430.L715@athlon.random> <E15gmqD-0002YK-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15gmqD-0002YK-00@the-village.bc.nu>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:40:37PM +0100
On Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:40:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > BTW, I fixed a few more issues in the rcu patch (grep for
> > down_interruptible for instance), here an updated patch (will be
> > included in 2.4.10pre8aa1 [or later -aa]) with the name of rcu-2.
>
> I've been made aware of one other isue with the RCU patch
> US Patent #05442758
>
> In the absence of an actual real signed header paper patent use grant for GPL
> usage from the Sequent folks that seems to be rather hard to fix.
many thanks for the info. Since I live in Italy I should be safe to use
it and to contribute the developement until Sequent/IBM fixes the legal
problem. As far I can tell it's quite obviously just a theorical problem
but it was very worth noticing.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-11 13:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-11 8:51 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-11 11:04 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 12:40 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Alan Cox
2001-09-11 13:49 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
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2001-09-17 9:13 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-12 11:04 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-12 14:03 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-12 14:42 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-12 14:53 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-16 12:23 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Rusty Russell
2001-09-11 13:05 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-11 13:56 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 14:27 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-11 12:22 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-11 11:53 2.4.10pre7aa1 Dipankar Sarma
2001-09-11 11:57 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-11 9:39 2.4.10pre7aa1 Maneesh Soni
2001-09-11 11:12 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
[not found] <20010910175416.A714@athlon.random>
2001-09-10 17:41 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-10 18:03 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 18:49 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-10 19:01 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 19:03 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-10 19:08 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-10 18:52 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-10 19:06 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-16 17:00 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 17:23 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-16 17:34 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Rik van Riel
2001-09-16 18:16 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-09-16 19:04 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-09-12 8:24 ` 2.4.10pre7aa1 Rusty Russell
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