From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiserfs_fs.h listed in SCO court docs Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 08:44:31 -0800 Message-ID: <3FB2636F.8030905@namesys.com> References: <3FB22652.3020700@namesys.com> <20031113004312.GA17130@hello-penguin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20031113004312.GA17130@hello-penguin.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Stefan Traby Cc: Jason Holt , reiserfs-list@namesys.com Stefan Traby wrote: >On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 04:23:46AM -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >>>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2003111203544653 >>> >>>And they list: >>> >>>fs/reiserfs/do_balan.c >>>fs/reiserfs/fix_node.c >>>include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h >>> >>>Hans, did you sneaky look through SCO's IP and use it when writing your >>>code? >>> >>> > > > >>Hunh? >> >>Do they claim that we call some function that infringes (I have no idea >>what, kmalloc or something....) or that our code in that file itself >>infringes? When someone doesn't tell you what is allegedly infringing >>it is reallly hard to do anything. >> >> > >asp:~/linux/fs/reiserfs# grep \ SMP *.c >do_balan.c: using buffers already obtained. For SMP support it will someday be >fix_node.c: * When ported to SMP kernels, only at the last moment after all needed nodes >asp:~/linux/fs/reiserfs# > > >SCO really sucks. >There was simply no real investigation. > > > You are absolutely right. You forgot the includes.... reiser@bitspit:/usr/src/linux/include/linux> grep SMP reiserfs_fs* reiserfs_fs.h:gods only know how we are going to SMP the code that uses them. Oh would I like to make a court appearance regarding this one.... -- Hans