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2018-04-03Merge tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds8-29/+31
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "There's been a fair amount of activity in Documentation/ this time around: - Lots of work aligning Documentation/ABI with reality, done by Aishwarya Pant. - The trace documentation has been converted to RST by Changbin Du - I thrashed up kernel-doc to deal with a parsing issue and to try to make the code more readable. It's still a 20+-year-old Perl hack, though. - Lots of other updates, typo fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-4.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (82 commits) Documentation/process: update FUSE project website docs: kernel-doc: fix parsing of arrays dmaengine: Fix spelling for parenthesis in dmatest documentation dmaengine: Make dmatest.rst indeed reST compatible dmaengine: Add note to dmatest documentation about supported channels Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typo Documentation: admin-guide: add kvmconfig, xenconfig and tinyconfig commands Input: alps - Update documentation for trackstick v3 format Documentation: Mention why %p prints ptrval COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license files Input: trackpoint: document sysfs interface xfs: Change URL for the project in xfs.txt char/bsr: add sysfs interface documentation acpi: nfit: document sysfs interface block: rbd: update sysfs interface Documentation/sparse: fix typo Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for braces docs/vm: update 00-INDEX kernel-doc: Remove __sched markings ...
2018-04-02kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitionsDominik Brodowski1-1/+1
This keeps it in line with the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() / COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() calling convention. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-29Documentation/process: update FUSE project websiteMartin Kepplinger1-1/+1
According to the old project site, https://sourceforge.net/projects/fuse/ the project has moved to https://github.com/libfuse/ so we update the link to point to the latest libfuse release. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-26Documentation: magic-numbers: Fix typoMartin Kepplinger1-1/+1
This fixes a little then / them confusion. Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-25syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernelDominik Brodowski1-0/+32
The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be userspace in order to make use of syscalls. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-03-23COPYING: create a new file with points to the Kernel license filesMauro Carvalho Chehab1-9/+11
With the addition of SPDX patchset, the contents of COPYING file is now duplicated at two other files under LICENSE: LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note It is easy to check that the contents of the licence written on those files are identical with COPYING using: $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0 $ diff -upr COPYING LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note|less Also, a new file was added, with describes how SPDX should work at the Kernel source files: Documentation/process/license-rules.rst Instead fo having it copying the contents of two files, and not even mentioning the third one, replace it by a file whose content points to the other tree files, preserving the Kernel's license. Adjust license-rules.rst accordingly. Please notice that this file preserves the Kernel license as is, without any changes. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-21Documentation/CodingStyle: Add an example for bracesGary R Hook1-0/+9
Add another example of required braces when using a compound statement in a loop. Signed-off-by: Gary R Hook <gary.hook@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07documentation: add my name to kernel driver statementAaro Koskinen1-0/+1
Add my name to kernel driver statement. Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07docs: add Co-Developed-by docsTobin C. Harding1-2/+7
When Co-Developed-by tag was added, docs were only added to Documention/process/5.Posting.rst and were not added to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst Add documentation to Documention/process/submitting-patches.rst Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> [jc: tweaked commas in the subheading] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-18Documentation/process/howto: Remove outdated info about bugzilla mailing listsJonathan Neuschäfer1-8/+0
The mailing list archives[1,2] show no activity since September 2011. [1]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-new/ [2]: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bugme-janitors/ Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-16Documentation: Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing listMinghui Liu1-7/+0
Delete reference to the kernel-mentors mailing list because the mailing list no longer exists Signed-off-by: Minghui Liu <minghui.liu.95@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-13Documentation/process: Co-developed-by instead of Co-Developed-byDominik Brodowski1-1/+1
Up to now, all commit messages have used the "d" in lower case. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-07Merge tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds3-1/+931
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving fixes, along with Konstantin's PGP document that had no reason to wait another cycle" * tag 'docs-4.16-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guide Documentation/admin-guide: fixes for thunderbolt.rst Documentation: mips: Update AU1xxx_IDE Kconfig dependencies Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rst Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guide
2018-02-06Documentation/process: tweak pgp maintainer guideKonstantin Ryabitsev1-16/+34
Based on the feedback provided: - Uniformly use lowercase k in "Linux kernel" - Give a one-sentence explanation of what subkeys are - Explain what signed commits might be useful for even if upstream developers do not use them for much of anything - Admonish to set up gpg-agent if signed commits are turned on in git config - Fix a typo reported by Luc Van Oostenryck Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuildLinus Torvalds1-0/+25
Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada: "A pretty big batch of Kconfig updates. I have to mention the lexer and parser of Kconfig are now built from real .l and .y sources. So, flex and bison are the requirement for building the kernel. Both of them (unlike gperf) have been stable for a long time. This change has been tested several weeks in linux-next, and I did not receive any problem report about this. Summary: - add checks for mistakes, like the choice default is not in choice, help is doubled - document data structure and complex code - fix various memory leaks - change Makefile to build lexer and parser instead of using pre-generated C files - drop 'boolean' keyword, which is equivalent to 'bool' - use default 'yy' prefix and remove unneeded Make variables - fix gettext() check for xconfig - announce that oldnoconfig will be finally removed - make 'Selected by:' and 'Implied by' readable in help and search result - hide silentoldconfig from 'make help' to stop confusing people - fix misc things and cleanups" * tag 'kconfig-v4.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (37 commits) kconfig: Remove silentoldconfig from help and docs; fix kconfig/conf's help kconfig: make "Selected by:" and "Implied by:" readable kconfig: announce removal of oldnoconfig if used kconfig: fix make xconfig when gettext is missing kconfig: Clarify menu and 'if' dependency propagation kconfig: Document 'if' flattening logic kconfig: Clarify choice dependency propagation kconfig: Document SYMBOL_OPTIONAL logic kbuild: remove unnecessary LEX_PREFIX and YACC_PREFIX kconfig: use default 'yy' prefix for lexer and parser kconfig: make conf_unsaved a local variable of conf_read() kconfig: make xfgets() really static kconfig: make input_mode static kconfig: Warn if there is more than one help text kconfig: drop 'boolean' keyword kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes, again kconfig: Remove menu_end_entry() kconfig: Document important expression functions kconfig: Document automatic submenu creation code kconfig: Fix choice symbol expression leak ...
2018-02-01Fix broken link in Documentation/process/kernel-docs.rstGrigory Shipunov1-1/+1
Kernel Glossary has moved from /Glossary to /KernelGlossary on kernelnewbies.org. This patch corrects this link. Signed-off-by: Grigory Shipunov <mail@oxapentane.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-02-01Documentation/process: kernel maintainer PGP guideKonstantin Ryabitsev2-0/+912
This guide is an adapted version of the more general "Protecting Code Integrity" guide written and maintained by The Linux Foundation IT for use with open-source projects. It provides the oft-lacking guidance on the following topics: - how to properly protect one's PGP keys to minimize the risks of them being stolen and used maliciously to impersonate a kernel developer - how to configure Git to properly use GnuPG - when and how to use PGP with Git - how to verify fellow Linux Kernel developer identities I believe this document should live with the rest of the documentation describing proper processes one should follow when participating in kernel development. Placing it in a wiki on some place like kernel.org would be insufficient for a number of reasons -- primarily, because only a relatively small subset of maintainers have accounts on kernel.org, but also because even those who do rarely remember that such wiki exists. Keeping it with the rest of in-kernel docs should hopefully give it more visibility, but also help keep it up-to-date as tools and processes evolve. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-01-31Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds3-1/+376
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Documentation updates for 4.16. New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation, kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers, and lots of fixes and updates. As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the maintainer" * tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits) linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception LICENSES: Add the MIT license LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt errseq: Add to documentation tree ...
2018-01-06Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licensesThomas Gleixner1-0/+370
Add a file to the Documentation directory to describe how file licenses should be described in all kernel files, using the SPDX identifier, as well as where all licenses should be in the kernel source tree for people to refer to (LICENSES/). Thanks to Kate and Greg for review and editing and Jonas for the suggestions concerning the meta tags in the licenses files. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Jonas Oberg <jonas@fsfe.org> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21docs: fix process/submit-checklist.rst Sphinx warningMarkus Heiser1-2/+2
add missing indent whitespace to list item, fixes the warning: - process/submit-checklist.rst:41: WARNING: Enumerated list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent. Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Reviewed-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add myself to the enforcement statement listDavid Sterba1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add Luis R. Rodriguez to list of enforcement statement endorsersLuis R. Rodriguez1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-21Documentation: Add Kees Cook to list of enforcement statement endorsersKees Cook1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-16kbuild: prepare to remove C files pre-generated by flex and bisonMasahiro Yamada1-0/+25
In Linux build system convention, pre-generated files are version- controlled with a "_shipped" suffix. During the kernel building, they are simply shipped (copied) removing the suffix. This approach can reduce external tool dependency for the kernel build, but it is tedious to manually regenerate such artifacts from developers' point of view. (We need to do "make REGENERATE_PARSERS=1" every time we touch real source files such as *.l, *.y) Some months ago, I sent out RFC patches to run flex, bison, and gperf during the build. In the review and test, Linus noticed gperf-3.1 had changed the lookup function prototype. Then, the use of gperf in kernel was entirely removed by commit bb3290d91695 ("Remove gperf usage from toolchain"). This time, I tested several versions of flex and bison, and I was not hit by any compatibility issue except a flaw in flex-2.6.3; if you generate lexer for dtc and genksyms with flex-2.6.3, you will see "yywrap redefined" warning. This was not intentional, but a bug, fixed by flex-2.6.4. Otherwise, both flex and bison look fairly stable for a long time. This commit prepares some build rules to remove the _shipped files. Also, document minimal requirement for flex and bison. Rationale for the minimal version: The -Wmissing-prototypes option of GCC warns "no previous prototype" for lexers generated by flex-2.5.34 or older, so I chose 2.5.35 as the required version for flex. Flex-2.5.35 was released in 2008. Bison looks more stable. I did not see any problem with bison-2.0, released in 2004. I did not test bison-1.x, but bison-2.0 should be old enough. Tested flex versions: 2.5.35 2.5.36 2.5.37 2.5.39 2.6.0 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 (*) 2.6.4 (*) flex-2.6.3 causes "yywrap redefined" warning Tested bison versions: 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.4.1 2.5.1 2.6 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7 2.7.1 3.0 3.0.1 3.0.2 3.0.3 3.0.4 Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
2017-12-11Documentation/process: Add CONFIG default value to submit-checklistDarren Hart (VMware)1-1/+3
Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-06Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core, to pick up fixes and to refresh to v4.15Ingo Molnar1-0/+5
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-11-29Documentation: Add Arnaldo Melo to list of enforcement statement endorsersArnaldo Carvalho de Melo1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2017-11-23Merge tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait. There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build (but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)" * tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive" Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
2017-11-20Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authorsGreg Kroah-Hartman1-0/+5
Sometimes a single patch is the result of multiple authors. As git only can have one "author" of a patch, it is still good to properly give credit to the other developers of a commit. To address this, document the "Co-Developed-by:" tag which can be used to show other authors of the patch. Note, these other authors must also provide a Signed-off-by: tag as it is their work that is being submitted here. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-11-13Merge tag 'docs-4.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds6-7/+207
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A relatively calm cycle for the docs tree again. - The old driver statement has been added to the kernel docs. - We have a couple of new helper scripts. find-unused-docs.sh from Sayli Karnic will point out kerneldoc comments that are not actually used in the documentation. Jani Nikula's documentation-file-ref-check finds references to non-existing files. - A new ftrace document from Steve Rostedt. - Vinod Koul converted the dmaengine docs to RST Beyond that, it's mostly simple fixes. This set reaches outside of Documentation/ a bit more than most. In all cases, the changes are to comment docs, mostly from Randy, in places where there didn't seem to be anybody better to take them" * tag 'docs-4.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits) documentation: fb: update list of available compiled-in fonts MAINTAINERS: update DMAengine documentation location dmaengine: doc: ReSTize pxa_dma doc dmaengine: doc: ReSTize dmatest doc dmaengine: doc: ReSTize client API doc dmaengine: doc: ReSTize provider doc dmaengine: doc: Add ReST style dmaengine document ftrace/docs: Add documentation on how to use ftrace from within the kernel bug-hunting.rst: Fix an example and a typo in a Sphinx tag scripts: Add a script to find unused documentation samples: Convert timers to use timer_setup() documentation: kernel-api: add more info on bitmap functions Documentation: fix selftests related file refs Documentation: fix ref to power basic-pm-debugging Documentation: fix ref to trace stm content Documentation: fix ref to coccinelle content Documentation: fix ref to workqueue content Documentation: fix ref to sphinx/kerneldoc.py Documentation: fix locking rt-mutex doc refs docs: dev-tools: correct Coccinelle version number ...
2017-11-04Documentation: Add Frank Rowand to list of enforcement statement endorsersFrank Rowand1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-04doc: add Willy Tarreau to the list of enforcement statement endorsersWilly Tarreau1-0/+1
add me to the list. Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-11-03Documentation: Add Tim Bird to list of enforcement statement endorsersBird, Timothy1-0/+1
Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-23Documentation: Add my name to kernel enforcement statementMartin K. Petersen1-0/+1
The kernel enforcement statement commit had my Acked-by: but missed my name in the document signatures. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-21Documentation: kernel-enforcement-statement.rst: proper sort namesGreg Kroah-Hartman1-2/+1
Eduardo was not in the correct alphabetical order, and Ivan was somehow listed twice, so fix these sorting issues up. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-21Documentation: Add Arm Ltd to kernel-enforcement-statement.rstCatalin Marinas1-0/+2
Adding a couple of names on behalf of Arm Ltd. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-19Documentation: kernel-enforcement-statement.rst: Remove Red Hat markingsAndrea Arcangeli1-5/+5
Doc update because significance of corporate affiliation was unclear. Acked-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Acked-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana <rfontana@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-19Documentation: fix ref to coccinelle contentTom Saeger1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-19Documentation: Add myself to the enforcement statement listLaura Abbott1-0/+1
I already Acked the patch, add my name to the list as well. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <laura@labbott.name> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-18Documentation: Sign kernel enforcement statementDennis Dalessandro1-0/+1
Add my name to the kernel enforcement statement as it is something I support speaking on my own behalf and not a statement of my current employer. Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-18Add ack for Trond Myklebust to the enforcement statementTrond Myklebust1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-18Documentation: update kernel enforcement support listEduardo Valentin1-0/+1
Adding myself to the list as I missed the window to be in the original patch. Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@dowhile0.org> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin <eduval@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-18Documentation: add my name to supportersStephen Hemminger1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-16Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policyGreg Kroah-Hartman2-0/+148
This adds a short document describing the views of how the Linux kernel community feels about enforcing the license of the kernel. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Alex Elder (Linaro) <elder@linaro.org> Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org> Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Anna Schumaker <schumaker.anna@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Arvind Yadav <arvind.yadav.cs@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@wdc.com> Acked-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Acked-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong (Oracle) <darrick.wong@oracle.com> Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com> Acked-by: David S. 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2017-10-12Documentation: fix driver-api doc refsTom Saeger1-1/+1
Make driver-api document refs valid. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-10-07Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernelGreg Kroah-Hartman2-0/+200
Way back in 2008 we didn't have "robust" in-kernel documentation system, so the idea of putting something like the kernel driver statement in the kernel tree wasn't even imagined. But now that has changed, so add the old document to the kernel source itself to allow for us to properly reference it in one canonical place (as the LF wiki keeps moving things around.) This also will allow people to add their names to it, as I seem to have lost the ability to do that by not knowing how to edit things on the original document. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-09-26Documentation/process: phrasofixJunio C Hamano1-1/+1
Devils in the details are found only when the high level design is refined and gets more detailed, and the appropriate phrase to use to describe this is "problems are revealed", not "problems are reviewed". Reviews may reveal these problems, though ;-) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-09-26Documentation/process: fix the canonical patch format descriptionJunio C Hamano1-4/+4
There shouldn't be a blank line at the beginning, if there is no optional in-body "From" line. There must be a blank line between the body of the explanation and the beginning of the S-o-b lines. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-08-30docs: process: drop git snapshots from applying-patches.rstRandy Dunlap1-42/+1
Drop all references to git daily snapshots of Linux mainline git tree since they are no longer generated. Drop the "Last update" info since 'git log' is a better source of that info and since the Last update date is not being updated. Yes, I read that this file is obsolete, but it still has some useful information in it. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-08-24Documentation: stable-kernel-rules: fix broken git urlsAndrii Bordunov1-2/+2
git.kernel.org links don't work (fatal: repository ... not found). Update them with the current style from https://git.kernel.org There is no HTTP option, so also switch HTTP -> HTTPS. Signed-off-by: Andrii Bordunov <andrew.bordunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>