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
     

14 Dec, 2015

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  • AudioQuest DragonFly DAC reports a volume control range of 0..50
    (0x0000..0x0032) which in USB Audio means a range of 0 .. 0.2dB, which
    is obviously incorrect and would cause software using the dB information
    in e.g. volume sliders to have a massive volume difference in 100..102%
    range.

    Commit 2d1cb7f658fb ("ALSA: usb-audio: add dB range mapping for some
    devices") added a dB range mapping for it with range 0..50 dB.

    However, the actual volume mapping seems to be neither linear volume nor
    linear dB scale, but instead quite close to the cubic mapping e.g.
    alsamixer uses, with a range of approx. -53...0 dB.

    Replace the previous quirk with a custom dB mapping based on some basic
    output measurements, using a 10-item range TLV (which will still fit in
    alsa-lib MAX_TLV_RANGE_SIZE).

    Tested on AudioQuest DragonFly HW v1.2. The quirk is only applied if the
    range is 0..50, so if this gets fixed/changed in later HW revisions it
    will no longer be applied.

    v2: incorporated Takashi Iwai's suggestion for the quirk application
    method

    Signed-off-by: Anssi Hannula
    Cc:
    Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai

    Anssi Hannula
     

12 Mar, 2010

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