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Author SHA1 Message Date
Greg Kroah-Hartman
e2be04c7f9 License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license
Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be.  This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier.  The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

   NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
   services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
   of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier.  The format
is:
        ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text.  The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.  See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-02 11:20:11 +01:00
Mike Frysinger
1ca5eebb89 uapi: mqueue.h: add missing linux/types.h include
Commit 63159f5dcc ("uapi: Use __kernel_long_t in struct mq_attr")
changed the types from long to __kernel_long_t, but didn't add a
linux/types.h include.  Code that tries to include this header directly
breaks:

  /usr/include/linux/mqueue.h:26:2: error: unknown type name '__kernel_long_t'
  __kernel_long_t mq_flags; /* message queue flags   */

This also upsets configure tests for this header:

  checking linux/mqueue.h usability... no
  checking linux/mqueue.h presence... yes
  configure: WARNING: linux/mqueue.h: present but cannot be compiled
  configure: WARNING: linux/mqueue.h:     check for missing prerequisite headers?
  configure: WARNING: linux/mqueue.h: see the Autoconf documentation
  configure: WARNING: linux/mqueue.h:     section "Present But Cannot Be Compiled"
  configure: WARNING: linux/mqueue.h: proceeding with the compiler's result
  checking for linux/mqueue.h... no

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170119194644.4403-1-vapier@gentoo.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
H.J. Lu
63159f5dcc uapi: Use __kernel_long_t in struct mq_attr
Both x32 and x86-64 use the same struct mq_attr for system calls.  But
x32 long is 32-bit. This patch replaces long with __kernel_long_t in
struct mq_attr.

Signed-off-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1388182464-28428-9-git-send-email-hjl.tools@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-01-20 14:45:33 -08:00
David Howells
607ca46e97 UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2012-10-13 10:46:48 +01:00