From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757209Ab2BCSBL (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:01:11 -0500 Received: from e9.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.139]:34194 "EHLO e9.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753429Ab2BCSBJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2012 13:01:09 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 10:00:47 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Josh Triplett Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, patches@linaro.org Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 01/41] rcu: Bring RTFP.txt up to date. Message-ID: <20120203180047.GE2382@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20120201194131.GA10028@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1328125319-5205-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120202001814.GA29058@leaf> <20120202013305.GT2382@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120202020100.GK29058@leaf> <20120202164725.GL2518@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20120202223236.GD9279@leaf> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120202223236.GD9279@leaf> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12020318-7182-0000-0000-000000ACF7E3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 02:32:36PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 08:47:25AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote: [ . . . ] > > > Not in this case, though. This one should have the year as either 2008 > > > or 2010 depending on which date you count. > > > > Odd. Color me confused. This is 7,426,511, which was filed in 2004 and > > granted in 2008. Fixed. I think, anyway. I am -so- confused! ;-) > > I think I can clear up the confusion here. Three different relevant > patents exist: > > - Patent 7,426,511, titled "Efficient support of consistent cyclic > search with read-copy-update", filed 2004-03-08 and granted > 2008-09-16. > > - Patent 7,814,082, a continuation of 7,426,511, *also* titled > "Efficient support of consistent cyclic search with read-copy-update", > filed 2008-03-18 and granted 2010-10-12. I grabbed the text of > 7,426,511 and this one, and ran them through git diff --no-index > --color-words; it looks like 7,814,082 contains some very minor text > revisions (not semantically significant), plus a change to the types > of the claims (to claim a system and a computer program product, > rather than a method). > > - Patent 7,953,778, titled "Efficient support of consistent cyclic > search with read-copy update and parallel updates", filed 2008-05-20 > and granted 2011-05-31. As suggested by the title, this one adds > parallel updates. > > Your patch added citations for the first and third of those, 7,426,511 > and 7,953,778, with BibTeX tags PaulEMcKenney2011cyclicRCU and > PaulEMcKenney2011cyclicparallelRCU. I think you probably want to > replace the citation to 7,426,511 with a citation to 7,814,082, or cite > all three and annotate 7,426,511 as superseded by 7,814,082. In any > case, you'll want to either drop or fix the years in the BibTeX tags. Sad that I needed your help with this, but thank you for providing it! I am leaving #1 and #3, but with the correct dates. Thanx, Paul