Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268915AbUI2UJC (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:09:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268831AbUI2UJC (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:09:02 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.206]:10126 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268915AbUI2UI6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Sep 2004 16:08:58 -0400 Message-ID: <35fb2e5904092913081a802944@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2004 21:08:54 +0100 From: Jon Masters Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: processor affinity Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Alan Cox , Robert Love , Ankit Jain , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <415B0BFA.6050203@drdos.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040928122517.9741.qmail@web52907.mail.yahoo.com> <41596F7F.1000905@drdos.com> <1096387088.4911.4.camel@betsy.boston.ximian.com> <41598B23.50702@drdos.com> <1096408318.13983.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> <415AE953.3070105@drdos.com> <20040929184510.A15692@infradead.org> <415B0BFA.6050203@drdos.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 774 Lines: 19 On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 13:24:42 -0600, Jeff V. Merkey 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/