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
16 Sep, 2016
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We can use ilog2() to more easily produce the desired NR_BG_LOCKS. This
works because ilog2() is evaluated at compile-time when its argument is
a compile-time constant.I did not change the chosen NR_BG_LOCKS values.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger -
An obsolete comment and extra parentheses were left over from when the
sb_bgl_lock() macro was replaced with the bgl_lock_ptr() function.Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger
05 Jan, 2009
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As suggested by Andreas Dilger, introduce a bgl_lock_ptr() helper in
and add separate sb_bgl_lock() helpers to
filesystem specific header files to break the hidden dependency to
struct ext[234]_sb_info.Also, while at it, convert the macros to static inlines to try make up
for all the times I broke Andrew Morton's tree.Acked-by: Andreas Dilger
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Apr, 2006
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Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse
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!