From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Jones Subject: Re: Dynamic frequency governor Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:00:10 +0100 Sender: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Message-ID: <20031020170010.GF21438@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: cpufreq-bounces@www.linux.org.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Moore, Robert" Cc: cpufreq@www.linux.org.uk On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:33:04AM -0700, Moore, Robert wrote: > >From what I can tell, this has not been done yet; is this true? Correct. For the reason I outlined... > however the fact remains, whilst there are folks owning patents on > this, it'll *never* be acceptable for merging without an exception > grant from the patent holder. Here, and... > > There are several patents in this area (I think from Hitachi, I forget > > exactly) It has come up before on the list, so should be in the > > archives. Unless you can get a grant from the holder that it may be > > used in GPL code, this has zero chance of being merged to mainline. Here. Do I need to quote it a third time ? Dave -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk