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Revision tags: v5.1-rc3
# 0e2f54f8 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>


# 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.


Revision tags: v5.1-rc2
# 86008304 19-Mar-2019 Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

Merge remote-tracking branch 'net/master'


# 249acb5f 19-Mar-2019 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into spi-5.2

Linux 5.1-rc1


# c9e48084 19-Mar-2019 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into regulator-5.2

Linux 5.1-rc1


# 12747059 18-Mar-2019 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into asoc-5.2

Linux 5.1-rc1


# 22d91ed3 18-Mar-2019 Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>

Merge tag 'v5.1-rc1' into asoc-5.1

Linux 5.1-rc1


Revision tags: v5.1-rc1
# 1a29e857 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
# 61ab9fec 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>


Revision tags: v5.0-rc7, v5.0-rc6
# bf7fbeea 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
# 3eb66e91 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.


# 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.


Revision tags: v5.0-rc2, v5.0-rc1, v4.20
# 31d1b771 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
# 2ac5e38e 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>


Revision tags: v4.20-rc3
# 0ea0397a 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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# 26b76320 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.


Revision tags: v4.20-rc2
# 07fa3fa2 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


# 91e43395 08-Nov-2018 Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>

Merge branch 'fixes-dts' into omap-for-v4.20/fixes


Revision tags: v4.20-rc1
# f0718d79 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>


# 97ec37c5 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>


# 01aa9d51 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
# 9799445a 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
# c13aca79 04-Jun-2018 Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

Prepare input updates for 4.18 merge window.


# 101cfc9f 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
# 75445134 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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