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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/4] seqlock: introduce read-write
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>, MORITA Kazutaka <morita.kazutaka@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Il 13/08/2013 16:53, Jan Kiszka ha scritto:
>> > I agree.  I was writing the patch without looking at any Linux code
>> > (just to be safe since it's GPLv2-only) and misremembered the name of
>> > the API.
> Another reason to forget about v2+. ;)

Anyway, I am fairly sure this code is not based on Linux code, I never
looked at it.

Copying the API name from Linux does not "taint" the code with v2-onliness.

Paolo