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
30 Apr, 2014
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Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
30 Mar, 2012
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kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+).
Allow scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
04 Apr, 2011
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Silence a remaining annoying (or worse, irritating - "is my entire patched tree
broken now!?") bashism-related message that occurs when /bin/sh is configured
to instead deploy dash, a POSIX-compliant shell, as is the pretty much
standard case on e.g. Debian.Current kernel version is 2.6.38 ( Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs)
===> linux-2.6.38.patch-kernel_test/scripts/patch-kernel: line 253: [: =: unary operator expected
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek
07 Aug, 2008
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scripts/patch-kernel script can't patch a tree, say, from 2.6.25 to
2.6.26.1, because of a wrong comparison in context of patching 2.6.x base.
Fix it.Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
29 Jan, 2008
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Make the patch-kernel shell script sufficiently compatible with POSIX
shells, i.e., remove bashisms from scripts/patch-kernel.
This means that it now also works on dash 0.5.3-5
and still works on bash 3.1dfsg-8.Full changelog:
- replaced non-standard "==" by standard "="
- replaced non-standard "source" statement by POSIX "dot" command
- use leading ./ on mktemp filename to force the tempfile to a local
directory, so that the search path is not used
- replace bash syntax to remove leading dot by similar POSIX syntax
- added missing (optional/not required) $ signs to shell variable namesSigned-off-by: Andreas Mohr
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
03 Jan, 2006
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This patch removes all references to the bouncing address
rddunlap@osdl.org and one dead web page from the kernel.Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
06 May, 2005
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Add better support for (non-incremental) 2.6.x.y patches; If an ending
version number if not specified, the script automatically increments the
SUBLEVEL (x in 2.6.x.y) until no more patch files are found; however,
EXTRAVERSION (y in 2.6.x.y) is never automatically incremented but must be
specified fully.patch-kernel does not normally support reverse patching, but does so when
applying EXTRAVERSION (x.y) patches, so that moving from 2.6.11.y to
2.6.11.z is easy and handled by the script (reverse 2.6.11.y and apply
2.6.11.z).Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Apr, 2005
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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!