02 Nov, 2017

1 commit

  • 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 Feb, 2013

1 commit


08 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • The function is huge and included at least once in every VLAN acceleration
    capable driver. Uninline it; to avoid having drivers depend on the VLAN
    module, the function is always built in statically when VLAN is enabled.

    With all VLAN acceleration capable drivers that build on x86_64 enabled,
    this results in:

    text data bss dec hex filename
    6515227 854044 343968 7713239 75b1d7 vmlinux.inlined
    6505637 854044 343968 7703649 758c61 vmlinux.uninlined
    ----------------------------------------------------------
    -9590

    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Patrick McHardy
     

06 Jul, 2008

1 commit

  • Add GVRP support for dynamically registering VLANs with switches.

    By default GVRP is disabled because we only support the applicant-only
    participant model, which means it should not be enabled on vlans that
    are members of a bridge. Since there is currently no way to cleanly
    determine that, the user is responsible for enabling it.

    The code is pretty small and low impact, its wrapped in a config
    option though because it depends on the GARP implementation and
    the STP core.

    Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
    Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

    Patrick McHardy
     

11 Jul, 2007

1 commit


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