RCU, anyone?

Posted Jan 7, 2004 20:36 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (guest, #2599)
Parent article: Use of patented code in the kernel

there is already some code in the kernel with patent issues

Given our favorite lawsuit (and all of its surrounding discussion and countersuits), I'm surprised nobody mentioned RCU. Is that not in the kernel, courtesy of IBM, and does IBM not own patents on it? That was my understanding, anyway. (I don't believe they've expired, and I doubt there's a useful way to avoid them.)

Just curious and insufficiently knowledgable...

Greg