Re: Patenting kernel patches was Re: Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer

Alan Cox
2009-04-27T15:33:32Z

> And also holding up perfectly good uncontaminated patches for something
> patented seems especially wrong.
>
> I think we should move forward with a standard non patented ring
> buffer Ying was working on for this and avoid the patent mess as
> far as possible.

Agreed. If the future patches to be presented are useful and the
licensing usable etc then they can still be merged in the future (or far
future depending how much look folks have speeding up lawyers ;))

Alan