02 Nov, 2017

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  • 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
     

24 Apr, 2008

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14 Dec, 2006

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  • Run this:

    #!/bin/sh
    for f in $(grep -Erl "\([^\)]*\) *k[cmz]alloc" *) ; do
    echo "De-casting $f..."
    perl -pi -e "s/ ?= ?\([^\)]*\) *(k[cmz]alloc) *\(/ = \1\(/" $f
    done

    And then go through and reinstate those cases where code is casting pointers
    to non-pointers.

    And then drop a few hunks which conflicted with outstanding work.

    Cc: Russell King , Ian Molton
    Cc: Mikael Starvik
    Cc: Yoshinori Sato
    Cc: Roman Zippel
    Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
    Cc: Ralf Baechle
    Cc: Paul Mackerras
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: "David S. Miller"
    Cc: Jeff Dike
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: Jens Axboe
    Cc: Paul Fulghum
    Cc: Alan Cox
    Cc: Karsten Keil
    Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Cc: Jeff Garzik
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: Ian Kent
    Cc: Steven French
    Cc: David Woodhouse
    Cc: Neil Brown
    Cc: Jaroslav Kysela
    Cc: Takashi Iwai
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Robert P. J. Day
     

21 Oct, 2006

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04 Oct, 2006

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  • This patch makes nlm_traverse{locks,blocks,shares} and friends use a function
    pointer rather than a "action" enum.

    This function pointer is given two nlm_hosts (one given by the caller, the
    other taken from the lock/block/share currently visited), and is free to do
    with them as it wants. If it returns a non-zero value, the lockd/block/share
    is released.

    Signed-off-by: Olaf Kirch
    Signed-off-by: Neil Brown
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Olaf Kirch
     

21 Mar, 2006

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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