From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:51:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:50:56 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:26688 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:50:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 15:49:19 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Alan Cox Cc: Dipankar Sarma , hch@caldera.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mckenney Subject: Re: 2.4.10pre7aa1 Message-ID: <20010911154919.Z715@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010911130430.L715@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Sep 11, 2001 at 01:40:37PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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