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Author SHA1 Message Date
Greg Kroah-Hartman
6f52b16c5b License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license
Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which
makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default are files without license information under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPLV2.  Marking them GPLV2 would exclude
them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not
intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception
which is in the kernels COPYING file:

   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".

otherwise syscall usage would not be possible.

Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX
license identifier.  The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the
Linux syscall exception.  SPDX license identifiers are 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.  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 11:19:54 +01:00
Nicolas Dichtel
9078b4eea1 uapi: includes linux/types.h before exporting files
Some files will be exported after a following patch. 0-day tests report the
following warning/error:
./usr/include/linux/bcache.h:8: include of <linux/types.h> is preferred over <asm/types.h>
./usr/include/linux/bcache.h:11: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
./usr/include/linux/qrtr.h:8: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
./usr/include/linux/cryptouser.h:39: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
./usr/include/linux/pr.h:14: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
./usr/include/linux/btrfs_tree.h:337: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>
./usr/include/rdma/bnxt_re-abi.h:45: found __[us]{8,16,32,64} type without #include <linux/types.h>

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-05-11 00:18:38 +09:00
Christoph Hellwig
bbd3e06436 block: add an API for Persistent Reservations
This commits adds a driver API and ioctls for controlling Persistent
Reservations s/genericly/generically/ at the block layer.  Persistent
Reservations are supported by SCSI and NVMe and allow controlling who gets
access to a device in a shared storage setup.

Note that we add a pr_ops structure to struct block_device_operations
instead of adding the members directly to avoid bloating all instances
of devices that will never support Persistent Reservations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2015-10-21 14:46:56 -06:00