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
     

11 Jul, 2007

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25 Apr, 2007

1 commit

  • In particular, remove the bit in the LICENCE file about contacting
    Red Hat for alternative arrangements. Their errant IS department broke
    that arrangement a long time ago -- the policy of collecting copyright
    assignments from contributors came to an end when the plug was pulled on
    the servers hosting the project, without notice or reason.

    We do still dual-license it for use with eCos, with the GPL+exception
    licence approved by the FSF as being GPL-compatible. It's just that nobody
    has the right to license it differently.

    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

    David Woodhouse
     

13 May, 2006

1 commit

  • This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
    SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).

    There are some significant differences from previous version posted
    at last December.
    The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
    Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
    xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.

    In addition, some bugs are fixed.
    - A potential race condition was fixed.
    - Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
    - A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.

    The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
    mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
    and updated if necessary.
    Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
    load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.

    [1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
    [2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch

    Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei
    Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse

    KaiGai Kohei
     

07 Nov, 2005

1 commit

  • The goal of summary is to speed up the mount time. Erase block summary (EBS)
    stores summary information at the end of every (closed) erase block. It is
    no longer necessary to scan all nodes separetly (and read all pages of them)
    just read this "small" summary, where every information is stored which is
    needed at mount time.

    This summary information is stored in a JFFS2_FEATURE_RWCOMPAT_DELETE. During
    the mount process if there is no summary info the orignal scan process will
    be executed. EBS works with NAND and NOR flashes, too.

    There is a user space tool called sumtool to generate this summary
    information for a JFFS2 image.

    Signed-off-by: Ferenc Havasi
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Ferenc Havasi
     

06 Nov, 2005

1 commit


23 May, 2005

2 commits

  • This patch replaces the current CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NOR_ECC
    and CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH with a single configuration option -
    CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER.

    The only functional change of this patch is that the slower div/mod
    calculations for SECTOR_ADDR(), PAGE_DIV() and PAGE_MOD() are now always
    used when CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER is enabled.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Andrew Victor
     
  • For Dataflash, can_mark_obsolete = false and the NAND write buffering
    code (wbuf.c) is used.

    Since the DataFlash chip will automatically erase pages when writing,
    the cleanmarkers are not needed - so cleanmarker_oob = false and
    cleanmarker_size = 0

    DataFlash page-sizes are not a power of two (they're multiples of 528
    bytes). The SECTOR_ADDR macro (added in the previous core patch) is
    replaced with a (slower) div/mod version if CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH is
    selected.

    Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Andrew Victor
     

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