From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269531AbUJSUVe (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:21:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268185AbUJSUVX (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:21:23 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:44719 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269964AbUJSUT3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:19:29 -0400 Message-ID: <41756DFF.90608@drdos.com> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:41:51 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Diego Calleja Cc: riel@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout References: <4175657E.7040800@drdos.com> <20041019221457.3ad7dbea.diegocg@teleline.es> In-Reply-To: <20041019221457.3ad7dbea.diegocg@teleline.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Diego Calleja wrote: >El Tue, 19 Oct 2004 13:05:34 -0600 "Jeff V. Merkey" escribió: > > > > >>You're awesome. We don't use XFS, JFS, or SMP for our appliances so >>these changes >>have little impact for us. >> >> > >Just wondering, how did you remove RCU? From a quick grep it's used in generic >code like fs/dcache.c or kernel/sched.c. Did you remove process scheduler and >filesystem support for your customers too? Or I'm missing something about RCU? > > > Good question. One version we are working on doesn't even use Linus' kernel. The appliance does however. This one does require some tough work. The FS's were easy. We have something up our sleeve that will be a bit of a surprise to SCO on the horizon. Stay tuned ...... Jeff