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| 27-Mar-2019 |
Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
This is needed to get the fourcc code merged without conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
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9d7b7bfb |
| 27-Mar-2019 |
James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> |
Merge tag 'v5.1-rc2' into next-general
Merge to Linux 5.1-rc2 for subsystems to work with.
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Revision tags: v5.1-rc2 |
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| 19-Mar-2019 |
Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'net/master'
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249acb5f |
| 19-Mar-2019 |
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into spi-5.2
Linux 5.1-rc1
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c9e48084 |
| 19-Mar-2019 |
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into regulator-5.2
Linux 5.1-rc1
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| 18-Mar-2019 |
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into asoc-5.2
Linux 5.1-rc1
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| 18-Mar-2019 |
Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> |
Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into asoc-5.1
Linux 5.1-rc1
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Revision tags: v5.1-rc1 |
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| 09-Mar-2019 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations.
Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas"
* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...
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Revision tags: v5.0, v5.0-rc8 |
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| 20-Feb-2019 |
Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> |
doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
The patches fixes some typos in process/license-rules.rst
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Revision tags: v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6 |
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| 08-Feb-2019 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity
The original MODULE_LICENSE string for kernel modules licensed under the GPL v2 (only / or later) was simply "GPL", which was - and still
module: Cure the MODULE_LICENSE "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" bogosity
The original MODULE_LICENSE string for kernel modules licensed under the GPL v2 (only / or later) was simply "GPL", which was - and still is - completely sufficient for the purpose of module loading and checking whether the module is free software or proprietary.
In January 2003 this was changed with commit 3344ea3ad4b7 ("[PATCH] MODULE_LICENSE and EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL support"). This commit can be found in the history git repository which holds the 1:1 import of Linus' bitkeeper repository:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/?id=3344ea3ad4b7c302c846a680dbaeedf96ed45c02
The main intention of the patch was to refuse linking proprietary modules against symbols exported with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() at module load time.
As a completely undocumented side effect it also introduced the distinction between "GPL" and "GPL v2" MODULE_LICENSE() strings:
* "GPL" [GNU Public License v2 or later] * "GPL v2" [GNU Public License v2] * "GPL and additional rights" [GNU Public License v2 rights and more] * "Dual BSD/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 * or BSD license choice] * "Dual MPL/GPL" [GNU Public License v2 * or Mozilla license choice]
This distinction was and still is wrong in several aspects:
1) It broke all modules which were using the "GPL" string in the MODULE_LICENSE() already and were licensed under GPL v2 only.
A quick license scan over the tree at that time shows that at least 480 out of 1484 modules have been affected by this change back then. The number is probably way higher as this was just a quick check for clearly identifiable license information.
There was exactly ONE instance of a "GPL v2" module license string in the kernel back then - drivers/net/tulip/xircom_tulip_cb.c which otherwise had no license information at all. There is no indication that the change above is any way related to this driver. The change happend with the 2.4.11 release which was on Oct. 9 2001 - so quite some time before the above commit. Unfortunately there is no trace on the intertubes to any discussion of this.
2) The dual licensed strings became ill defined as well because following the "GPL" vs. "GPL v2" distinction all dual licensed (or additional rights) MODULE_LICENSE strings would either require those dual licensed modules to be licensed under GPL v2 or later or just be unspecified for the dual licensing case. Neither choice is coherent with the GPL distinction.
Due to the lack of a proper changelog and no real discussion on the patch submission other than a few implementation details, it's completely unclear why this distinction was introduced at all. Other than the comment in the module header file exists no documentation for this at all.
From a license compliance and license scanning POV this distinction is a total nightmare.
As of 5.0-rc2 2873 out of 9200 instances of MODULE_LICENSE() strings are conflicting with the actual license in the source code (either SPDX or license boilerplate/reference). A comparison between the scan of the history tree and a scan of current Linus tree shows to the extent that the git rename detection over Linus tree grafted with the history tree is halfways complete that almost none of the files which got broken in 2003 have been cleaned up vs. the MODULE_LICENSE string. So subtracting those 480 known instances from the conflicting 2800 of today more than 25% of the module authors got it wrong and it's a high propability that a large portion of the rest just got it right by chance.
There is no value for the module loader to convey the detailed license information as the only decision to be made is whether the module is free software or not.
The "and additional rights", "BSD" and "MPL" strings are not conclusive license information either. So there is no point in trying to make the GPL part conclusive and exact. As shown above it's already non conclusive for dual licensing and incoherent with a large portion of the module source.
As an unintended side effect this distinction causes a major headache for license compliance, license scanners and the ongoing effort to clean up the license mess of the kernel.
Therefore remove the well meant, but ill defined, distinction between "GPL" and "GPL v2" and document that:
- "GPL" and "GPL v2" both express that the module is licensed under GPLv2 (without a distinction of 'only' and 'or later') and is therefore kernel license compliant.
- None of the MODULE_LICENSE strings can be used for expressing or determining the exact license
- Their sole purpose is to decide whether the module is free software or not.
Add a MODULE_LICENSE subsection to the license rule documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> [jc: Did s/merily/merely/ ] Acked-by: Jessica Yu <jeyu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Revision tags: v5.0-rc5, v5.0-rc4, v5.0-rc3 |
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| 15-Jan-2019 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20' into for-linus
Sync with mainline to get linux/overflow.h among other things.
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4116941b |
| 14-Jan-2019 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20' into next
Merge with mainline to bring in the new APIs.
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Revision tags: v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20 |
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| 20-Dec-2018 |
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next
Linux 4.20-rc7
Sync with upstream (which now contains fbdev-v4.20 changes) to prepare a b
Merge tag 'v4.20-rc7' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next
Linux 4.20-rc7
Sync with upstream (which now contains fbdev-v4.20 changes) to prepare a base for fbdev-v4.21 changes.
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Revision tags: v4.20-rc7, v4.20-rc6, v4.20-rc5, v4.20-rc4 |
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| 20-Nov-2018 |
Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> |
Merge drm/drm-next into drm-intel-next-queued
Pull in v4.20-rc3 via drm-next.
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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Revision tags: v4.20-rc3 |
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| 13-Nov-2018 |
Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next
drm-next is forwarded to v4.20-rc1, and we need this to make a patch series apply.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst
Merge remote-tracking branch 'drm/drm-next' into drm-misc-next
drm-next is forwarded to v4.20-rc1, and we need this to make a patch series apply.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
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| 12-Nov-2018 |
James Morris <james.morris@microsoft.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20-rc2' into next-general
Sync to Linux 4.20-rc2 for downstream developers.
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Revision tags: v4.20-rc2 |
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| 08-Nov-2018 |
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.20-rc1' into omap-for-v4.21/dt-ti-sysc
Linux 4.20-rc1
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| 08-Nov-2018 |
Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com> |
Merge branch 'fixes-dts' into omap-for-v4.20/fixes
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Revision tags: v4.20-rc1 |
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| 29-Oct-2018 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/urgent, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| 29-Oct-2018 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent, to refresh the tree
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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| 24-Oct-2018 |
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements
Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits) docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits LICENSES: Add ISC license text LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs docs: fix some broken documentation references iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation ...
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Revision tags: v4.19, v4.19-rc8, v4.19-rc7, v4.19-rc6, v4.19-rc5, v4.19-rc4, v4.19-rc3, v4.19-rc2, v4.19-rc1 |
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| 14-Aug-2018 |
Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> |
docs: tidy up TOCs and refs to license-rules.rst
The documentation and TOCs are organized in a manner of a tree. Adding a TOC to the root, which refers to a file which is located in a subfolder form
docs: tidy up TOCs and refs to license-rules.rst
The documentation and TOCs are organized in a manner of a tree. Adding a TOC to the root, which refers to a file which is located in a subfolder forms a grid. Those TOCs are a bit confusing and thats why we get additional error messages while building partial documentation::
$ make SPHINXDIRS=process htmldocs ... checking consistency... Documentation/process/license-rules.rst: \ WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree
To fix it, the *root-license-TOC* is replaced by a reference and the 'license-roles.txt' is added to the Documentation/process/index.rst TOC.
BTW: there was an old licences remark in Documentation/process/howto.rst which is also updated, mentioning SPDX and pointing to the license-rules.rst
Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Revision tags: v4.18, v4.18-rc8, v4.18-rc7, v4.18-rc6, v4.18-rc5, v4.18-rc4, v4.18-rc3, v4.18-rc2, v4.18-rc1 |
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| 04-Jun-2018 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Prepare input updates for 4.18 merge window.
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| 04-Jun-2018 |
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> |
Merge branches 'clk-warn', 'clk-core', 'clk-spear' and 'clk-qcom-msm8998' into clk-next
* clk-warn: clk: Print the clock name and warning cause
* clk-core: clk: Remove clk_init_cb typedef
* cl
Merge branches 'clk-warn', 'clk-core', 'clk-spear' and 'clk-qcom-msm8998' into clk-next
* clk-warn: clk: Print the clock name and warning cause
* clk-core: clk: Remove clk_init_cb typedef
* clk-spear: clk: spear: fix WDT clock definition on SPEAr600
* clk-qcom-msm8998: clk: qcom: Add MSM8998 Global Clock Control (GCC) driver
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Revision tags: v4.17, v4.17-rc7 |
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| 24-May-2018 |
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> |
Merge tag 'v4.17-rc6' into next
Sync up with mainline to bring in Atmel controller changes for Caroline.
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