From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
To: "Artem B. Bityutskiy" <dedekind@yandex.ru>
Cc: Charles Manning <manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Some JFFS3 feedback
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:06:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051116170642.GC24753@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B3BE4.1000902@yandex.ru>
On Wed, 16 November 2005 17:02:12 +0300, Artem B. Bityutskiy wrote:
> Charles Manning wrote:
>
> >About 9 years back, I did some flash file system patent research and IIRC
> >one of the patents covered something very similar to the Wandering Tree
> >approach to addressing the write-in-place problem, so there might be some
> >IP issues with this. I shall have a scratch around to see if I can find it
> >(though finding something in a 20+ year old paper mountain is a challenge).
>
> Hmm, it is interesting. We would be very appreciated if you provide some
> information.
Definitely. If there is a patent on this, we need to do the usual
dance to find some prior art and either invalidate the patent or make
it specific enough to be trivially avoided.
Jörn
--
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
-- Sturgeon's Law
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-16 17:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-15 21:24 Some JFFS3 feedback Charles Manning
2005-11-16 14:02 ` Artem B. Bityutskiy
2005-11-16 17:06 ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2005-11-18 0:15 ` Charles Manning
2005-11-22 6:21 ` Charles Manning
2005-11-22 7:22 ` Jörn Engel
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