From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>,
Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: Patenting kernel patches was Re: Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:33:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090427163353.3fe1f59e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49F5C305.60807@linux.intel.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-27 15:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-22 9:11 Huang Ying
2009-04-22 9:22 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-22 10:16 ` Robert Richter
2009-04-22 10:19 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-22 11:35 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-22 11:30 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-24 6:06 ` Huang Ying
2009-04-24 10:09 ` Robert Richter
2009-04-24 13:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 7:49 ` Huang Ying
2009-04-27 7:53 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-27 14:39 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 14:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2009-04-27 14:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 16:14 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2009-04-27 17:05 ` Theodore Tso
2009-04-27 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-27 14:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 14:36 ` Patenting kernel patches was " Andi Kleen
2009-04-27 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-27 15:33 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-04-27 0:58 ` Huang Ying
2009-04-22 11:20 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-22 15:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-22 15:58 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-29 19:15 ` Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer II Andi Kleen
2009-04-30 7:38 ` 32bit mce unification (Re: Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer II) Hidetoshi Seto
2009-04-22 11:11 ` Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer Andi Kleen
2009-04-24 5:51 ` Huang Ying
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