02 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
    makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

    By default all files without license information are under the default
    license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

    Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
    SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
    shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

    This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
    Philippe Ombredanne.

    How this work was done:

    Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
    the use cases:
    - file had no licensing information it it.
    - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
    - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

    Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
    where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
    had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

    The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
    a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
    output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
    tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
    base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

    The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
    assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
    results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
    to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
    immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

    Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
    - Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
    - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
    lines of source
    - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if
    Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne
    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

    Greg Kroah-Hartman
     

08 Sep, 2005

1 commit

  • ToPIC95 brides (and maybe some other too) require to use the ExCA registers
    to power up the socket if a 16bit card is pluged. allow socket drivers to
    set a flag so that yenta does just that. also clean up yenta_get_status()
    a bit to use the new yenta_get_power() function.

    Side note: ToPIC97 bridges (at least in Rev.5 i have) don't require this.

    Ryan Underwood said:

    According to the mail that David Hinds received from a Toshiba engineer,
    ToPIC95 and 97 do require this, and ToPIC100 does not. Maybe you have a
    later revision.

    For all chips, 16-bit cards can be enabled through ExCA. So doesn't it
    make sense just to make this the default behavior for all Toshiba chips,
    to avoid corner cases showing up later?

    Daniel responded:

    I disagree with ryan to change anything for topic97 bridges. they work.
    and I couldn't find (read google) any report of a topic97 breaking on
    applying power with the CB registers.

    I'm having several toshba notebooks at work (and home) with topic95,97,100
    bridges. Only the ones with a topic95 didn't work.

    Signed-off-by: Daniel Ritz
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Daniel Ritz
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds