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Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:04:18 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] queued spinlocks (i386)
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* Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> wrote:

> Implement queued spinlocks for i386. [...]

isnt this patented by MS? (which might not worry you SuSE/Novell guys, 
but it might be a worry for the rest of the world ;-)

	Ingo