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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@drdos.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Robert Love <rml@novell.com>,
	Ankit Jain <ankitjain1580@yahoo.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: processor affinity
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:08:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e5904092913081a802944@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <415B0BFA.6050203@drdos.com>

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:24:42 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey@drdos.com> wrote:

> Anyway, I
> provided it as a reference since it is the first patent on SMP affinity
> scheduling and methods for the very interested person who asked. And
> yes, Linux
> appears to infringe it, but since Novell is pro-Linux, I don't think it
> matters.

Still it's probably worth knowing it might be an issue someday. What's
Novell's position on patents they hold involving the kernel? I'm too
lazy to go hunting for it (rml might well know).

Jon.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 12:25 processor affinity Ankit Jain
2004-09-28 13:39 ` Toon van der Pas
2004-09-28 13:47 ` Jon Masters
2004-09-28 13:55 ` Neil Horman
2004-09-28 14:04 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-28 15:58   ` Robert Love
2004-09-28 16:02     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-28 21:51       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-29 16:56         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-29 17:45           ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-29 19:24             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-29 20:08               ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-09-29 19:43                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-29 20:28                   ` Jon Masters
2004-09-29 20:03                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2004-09-30  2:39           ` Nick Piggin
     [not found]             ` <20040930124708.GA2520@galt.devicelogics.com>
2004-10-01  3:09               ` Nick Piggin

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