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@@ -48,3 +48,18 @@ When: April 2005
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Why: Replaced by ->compat_ioctl in file_operations and other method
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vecors.
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Who: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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+What: RCU API moves to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
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+When: April 2006
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+Files: include/linux/rcupdate.h, kernel/rcupdate.c
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+Why: Outside of Linux, the only implementations of anything even
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+ vaguely resembling RCU that I am aware of are in DYNIX/ptx,
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+ VM/XA, Tornado, and K42. I do not expect anyone to port binary
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+ drivers or kernel modules from any of these, since the first two
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+ are owned by IBM and the last two are open-source research OSes.
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+ So these will move to GPL after a grace period to allow
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+ people, who might be using implementations that I am not aware
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+ of, to adjust to this upcoming change.
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+Who: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
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