Christoph Hellwig wrote:
Because of that let us assume that IBM Corporate, Paul E. McKenney, Andrew Tridgell and other know what code exactly infridges that patent. IBM has worked around that code in the various embedded Linux offerings they ship and probably urge distributors to disable it. Why would we not remove that code unconditionally in that case and let other people infridge it? Or that patent is believed to be invalid and faught, and there was absolute no reason to remove it except for companies doing as part of a settlement and they could do it in their privat trees.
What about the scenario where a patent is valid in certain parts of the world but not in others? It seems possible that in this scenario there may be valid reasons to have a config option.
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