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Linus Torvalds 2c1212de6f SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1
Here are series of patches that add SPDX tags to different kernel files,
 based on two different things:
   - SPDX entries are added to a bunch of files that we missed a year ago
     that do not have any license information at all.
 
     These were either missed because the tool saw the MODULE_LICENSE()
     tag, or some EXPORT_SYMBOL tags, and got confused and thought the
     file had a real license, or the files have been added since the last
     big sweep, or they were Makefile/Kconfig files, which we didn't
     touch last time.
 
   - Add GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later tags to files where our scan
     tools can determine the license text in the file itself.  Where this
     happens, the license text is removed, in order to cut down on the
     700+ different ways we have in the kernel today, in a quest to get
     rid of all of these.
 
 These patches have been out for review on the linux-spdx@vger mailing
 list, and while they were created by automatic tools, they were
 hand-verified by a bunch of different people, all whom names are on the
 patches are reviewers.
 
 The reason for these "large" patches is if we were to continue to
 progress at the current rate of change in the kernel, adding license
 tags to individual files in different subsystems, we would be finished
 in about 10 years at the earliest.
 
 There will be more series of these types of patches coming over the next
 few weeks as the tools and reviewers crunch through the more "odd"
 variants of how to say "GPLv2" that developers have come up with over
 the years, combined with other fun oddities (GPL + a BSD disclaimer?)
 that are being unearthed, with the goal for the whole kernel to be
 cleaned up.
 
 These diffstats are not small, 3840 files are touched, over 10k lines
 removed in just 24 patches.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'spdx-5.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull SPDX update from Greg KH:
 "Here is a series of patches that add SPDX tags to different kernel
  files, based on two different things:

   - SPDX entries are added to a bunch of files that we missed a year
     ago that do not have any license information at all.

     These were either missed because the tool saw the MODULE_LICENSE()
     tag, or some EXPORT_SYMBOL tags, and got confused and thought the
     file had a real license, or the files have been added since the
     last big sweep, or they were Makefile/Kconfig files, which we
     didn't touch last time.

   - Add GPL-2.0-only or GPL-2.0-or-later tags to files where our scan
     tools can determine the license text in the file itself. Where this
     happens, the license text is removed, in order to cut down on the
     700+ different ways we have in the kernel today, in a quest to get
     rid of all of these.

  These patches have been out for review on the linux-spdx@vger mailing
  list, and while they were created by automatic tools, they were
  hand-verified by a bunch of different people, all whom names are on
  the patches are reviewers.

  The reason for these "large" patches is if we were to continue to
  progress at the current rate of change in the kernel, adding license
  tags to individual files in different subsystems, we would be finished
  in about 10 years at the earliest.

  There will be more series of these types of patches coming over the
  next few weeks as the tools and reviewers crunch through the more
  "odd" variants of how to say "GPLv2" that developers have come up with
  over the years, combined with other fun oddities (GPL + a BSD
  disclaimer?) that are being unearthed, with the goal for the whole
  kernel to be cleaned up.

  These diffstats are not small, 3840 files are touched, over 10k lines
  removed in just 24 patches"

* tag 'spdx-5.2-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (24 commits)
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 25
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 24
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 23
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 22
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 21
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 20
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 19
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 18
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 17
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 15
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 14
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 12
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 11
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 10
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 9
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 7
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 5
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 4
  treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 3
  ...
2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
Documentation Kbuild fixes for v5.2 2019-05-20 17:22:17 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 22 2019-05-21 11:52:38 +02:00
block for-5.2/block-post-20190516 2019-05-16 19:08:15 -07:00
certs kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify 2019-02-04 17:34:07 -05:00
crypto SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
drivers SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
fs SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
include SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
init treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
ipc ipc: do cyclic id allocation for the ipc object. 2019-05-14 19:52:52 -07:00
kernel SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
lib SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
mm treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
net SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
samples treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13 2019-05-21 11:28:45 +02:00
scripts SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
security treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13 2019-05-21 11:28:45 +02:00
sound treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 13 2019-05-21 11:28:45 +02:00
tools SPDX update for 5.2-rc2, round 1 2019-05-21 12:33:38 -07:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
.clang-format Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-04-17 11:26:25 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore .gitignore: exclude .get_maintainer.ignore and .gitattributes 2019-05-18 11:49:54 +09:00
.mailmap A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including: 2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Char/Misc driver patches for 5.1-rc1 2019-03-06 14:18:59 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v5.1 2019-03-10 17:48:21 -07:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-05-20 08:21:07 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.2-rc1 2019-05-19 15:47:09 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.