From d19b3e32375bd21b5d89cc484dfc56cbd9b7fee4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:36:19 +0900 Subject: Documentation/process: fix the canonical patch format description 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index 733478ade91b..1ef19d3a3eee 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -621,14 +621,14 @@ The canonical patch subject line is:: The canonical patch message body contains the following: - - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author (only needed if the person - sending the patch is not the author). - - - An empty line. + - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author, followed by an empty + line (only needed if the person sending the patch is not the author). - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch. + - An empty line. + - The ``Signed-off-by:`` lines, described above, which will also go in the changelog. -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From d4306db189d04886e07751f682495aeae61a4c4f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:36:20 +0900 Subject: Documentation/process: phrasofix 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 Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst b/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst index af2c0af931d6..be00716071d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ matter is (1) kernel developers tend to be busy, (2) there is no shortage of people with grand plans and little code (or even prospect of code) to back them up, and (3) nobody is obligated to review or comment on ideas posted by others. Beyond that, high-level designs often hide problems -which are only reviewed when somebody actually tries to implement those +which are only revealed when somebody actually tries to implement those designs; for that reason, kernel developers would rather see the code. If a request-for-comments posting yields little in the way of comments, do -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 13277782dd4bcef71341a1016bee1d09f8f95ae0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2017 11:10:38 +0200 Subject: Documentation: add Kernel Driver Statement to the kernel 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 Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst | 199 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 200 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 82fc399fcd33..68454319f006 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. submitting-patches coding-style email-clients + kernel-driver-statement Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..60d9d868f300 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +Kernel Driver Statement +----------------------- + +Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules +========================================== + + +We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source +Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have +repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and +the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, +stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development +model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux +community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their +customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors. +Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and +shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to +adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source +kernel code. + +We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for +today, have in the past, or will in the future. + + - Dave Airlie + - Nick Andrew + - Jens Axboe + - Ralf Baechle + - Felipe Balbi + - Ohad Ben-Cohen + - Muli Ben-Yehuda + - Jiri Benc + - Arnd Bergmann + - Thomas Bogendoerfer + - Vitaly Bordug + - James Bottomley + - Josh Boyer + - Neil Brown + - Mark Brown + - David Brownell + - Michael Buesch + - Franck Bui-Huu + - Adrian Bunk + - François Cami + - Ralph Campbell + - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino + - Mauro Carvalho Chehab + - Denis Cheng + - Jonathan Corbet + - Glauber Costa + - Alan Cox + - Magnus Damm + - Ahmed S. Darwish + - Robert P. J. Day + - Hans de Goede + - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo + - Helge Deller + - Jean Delvare + - Mathieu Desnoyers + - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich + - Alexey Dobriyan + - Daniel Drake + - Alex Dubov + - Randy Dunlap + - Michael Ellerman + - Pekka Enberg + - Jan Engelhardt + - Mark Fasheh + - J. Bruce Fields + - Larry Finger + - Jeremy Fitzhardinge + - Mike Frysinger + - Kumar Gala + - Robin Getz + - Liam Girdwood + - Jan-Benedict Glaw + - Thomas Gleixner + - Brice Goglin + - Cyrill Gorcunov + - Andy Gospodarek + - Thomas Graf + - Krzysztof Halasa + - Harvey Harrison + - Stephen Hemminger + - Michael Hennerich + - Tejun Heo + - Benjamin Herrenschmidt + - Kristian Høgsberg + - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh + - Marcel Holtmann + - Mike Isely + - Takashi Iwai + - Olof Johansson + - Dave Jones + - Jesper Juhl + - Matthias Kaehlcke + - Kenji Kaneshige + - Jan Kara + - Jeremy Kerr + - Russell King + - Olaf Kirch + - Roel Kluin + - Hans-Jürgen Koch + - Auke Kok + - Peter Korsgaard + - Jiri Kosina + - Mariusz Kozlowski + - Greg Kroah-Hartman + - Michael Krufky + - Aneesh Kumar + - Clemens Ladisch + - Christoph Lameter + - Gunnar Larisch + - Anders Larsen + - Grant Likely + - John W. Linville + - Yinghai Lu + - Tony Luck + - Pavel Machek + - Matt Mackall + - Paul Mackerras + - Roland McGrath + - Patrick McHardy + - Kyle McMartin + - Paul Menage + - Thierry Merle + - Eric Miao + - Akinobu Mita + - Ingo Molnar + - James Morris + - Andrew Morton + - Paul Mundt + - Oleg Nesterov + - Luca Olivetti + - S.Çağlar Onur + - Pierre Ossman + - Keith Owens + - Venkatesh Pallipadi + - Nick Piggin + - Nicolas Pitre + - Evgeniy Polyakov + - Richard Purdie + - Mike Rapoport + - Sam Ravnborg + - Gerrit Renker + - Stefan Richter + - David Rientjes + - Luis R. Rodriguez + - Stefan Roese + - Francois Romieu + - Rami Rosen + - Stephen Rothwell + - Maciej W. Rozycki + - Mark Salyzyn + - Yoshinori Sato + - Deepak Saxena + - Holger Schurig + - Amit Shah + - Yoshihiro Shimoda + - Sergei Shtylyov + - Kay Sievers + - Sebastian Siewior + - Rik Snel + - Jes Sorensen + - Alexey Starikovskiy + - Alan Stern + - Timur Tabi + - Hirokazu Takata + - Eliezer Tamir + - Eugene Teo + - Doug Thompson + - FUJITA Tomonori + - Dmitry Torokhov + - Marcelo Tosatti + - Steven Toth + - Theodore Tso + - Matthias Urlichs + - Geert Uytterhoeven + - Arjan van de Ven + - Ivo van Doorn + - Rik van Riel + - Wim Van Sebroeck + - Hans Verkuil + - Horst H. von Brand + - Dmitri Vorobiev + - Anton Vorontsov + - Daniel Walker + - Johannes Weiner + - Harald Welte + - Matthew Wilcox + - Dan J. Williams + - Darrick J. Wong + - David Woodhouse + - Chris Wright + - Bryan Wu + - Rafael J. Wysocki + - Herbert Xu + - Vlad Yasevich + - Peter Zijlstra + - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 66ccc64f2c3b934f065811160be288cb9a2815ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Saeger Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 12:36:09 -0500 Subject: Documentation: fix driver-api doc refs Make driver-api document refs valid. Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/power/pci.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt | 2 +- Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/power/pci.txt b/Documentation/power/pci.txt index a1b7f7158930..d17fdf8f45ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pci.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ management. Based on previous work by Patrick Mochel This document only covers the aspects of power management specific to PCI devices. For general description of the kernel's interfaces related to device -power management refer to Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst and +power management refer to Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst and Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ pm->runtime_idle() callback. 2.4. System-Wide Power Transitions ---------------------------------- There are a few different types of system-wide power transitions, described in -Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst. Each of them requires devices to be handled +Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst. Each of them requires devices to be handled in a specific way and the PM core executes subsystem-level power management callbacks for this purpose. They are executed in phases such that each phase involves executing the same subsystem-level callback for every device belonging @@ -623,7 +623,7 @@ System restore requires a hibernation image to be loaded into memory and the pre-hibernation memory contents to be restored before the pre-hibernation system activity can be resumed. -As described in Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst, the hibernation image is loaded +As described in Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst, the hibernation image is loaded into memory by a fresh instance of the kernel, called the boot kernel, which in turn is loaded and run by a boot loader in the usual way. After the boot kernel has loaded the image, it needs to replace its own code and data with the code @@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ controlling the runtime power management of their devices. At the time of this writing there are two ways to define power management callbacks for a PCI device driver, the recommended one, based on using a -dev_pm_ops structure described in Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst, and the +dev_pm_ops structure described in Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst, and the "legacy" one, in which the .suspend(), .suspend_late(), .resume_early(), and .resume() callbacks from struct pci_driver are used. The legacy approach, however, doesn't allow one to define runtime power management callbacks and is @@ -1046,5 +1046,5 @@ PCI Local Bus Specification, Rev. 3.0 PCI Bus Power Management Interface Specification, Rev. 1.2 Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) Specification, Rev. 3.0b PCI Express Base Specification, Rev. 2.0 -Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst +Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt diff --git a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt index 625549d4c74a..57af2f7963ee 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/runtime_pm.txt @@ -680,7 +680,7 @@ left in runtime suspend. If that happens, the PM core will not execute any system suspend and resume callbacks for all of those devices, except for the complete callback, which is then entirely responsible for handling the device as appropriate. This only applies to system suspend transitions that are not -related to hibernation (see Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst for more +related to hibernation (see Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst for more information). The PM core does its best to reduce the probability of race conditions between diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst index afb82ee0cbea..b38bf2054ce3 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst @@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ PM support: anything. For the driver testing instructions see Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt and for a relatively complete overview of the power management issues related to - drivers see Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst . + drivers see Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst. Control: In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 9ed95129ffcabbde564b40ffbbf9c26e8702d858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2017 16:17:55 +0200 Subject: Documentation: Add a file explaining the Linux kernel license enforcement policy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Acked-by: Alex Elder (Linaro) Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli Acked-by: Andy Gross Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Acked-by: Anna Schumaker Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Arvind Yadav Acked-by: Bart Van Assche Acked-by: Bhumika Goyal Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger Acked-by: Christian König Acked-by: Christophe JAILLET Acked-by: Chuck Lever Acked-by: Colin Ian King Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: Daniel Vetter Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong (Oracle) Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong Acked-by: David Kershner Acked-by: David S. Miller Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Acked-by: Doug Ledford Acked-by: Fabio Estevam Acked-by: Felipe Balbi Acked-by: Florian Westphal Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Acked-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke Acked-by: Hans de Goede Acked-by: Heiko Carstens Acked-by: Heiko Stuebner Acked-by: Heiner Kallweit Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: Ivan Safonov Acked-by: Jaegeuk Kim Acked-by: Jan Kara (SUSE) Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher Acked-by: Jens Axboe Acked-by: Jes Sorensen Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Acked-by: Jiri Pirko Acked-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Joerg Roedel (SUSE) Acked-by: Johan Hovold Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf Acked-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: Julia Lawall Acked-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Acked-by: Khalid Aziz Acked-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski Acked-by: Kuninori Morimoto Acked-by: Larry Finger Acked-by: Laura Abbott Acked-by: Lee Jones Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky Acked-by: Linus Walleij (Linaro) Acked-by: Lv Zheng Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) Acked-by: Masahiro Yamada Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Acked-by: Mel Gorman Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Mike Marshall Acked-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Neil Armstrong Acked-by: Olof Johansson Acked-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Acked-by: Paul Burton Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki Acked-by: Ralf Baechle Acked-by: Richard Weinberger Acked-by: Rik van Riel Acked-by: Rob Clark Acked-by: Rob Herring Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel (Collabora) Acked-by: Shawn Guo Acked-by: Shuah Khan Acked-by: Simon Horman Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Acked-by: Sven Eckelmann Acked-by: Takashi Iwai (SUSE) Acked-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Thierry Reding Acked-by: Tony Luck Acked-by: Ulf Hansson Acked-by: Vinod Koul Acked-by: Viresh Kumar Acked-by: Vivien Didelot Acked-by: Wei Yongjun Acked-by: Xin Long Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/index.rst | 1 + .../process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 148 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst index 82fc399fcd33..61e43cc3ed17 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read. submitting-patches coding-style email-clients + kernel-enforcement-statement Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..1e23d4227337 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement +---------------------------------- + +As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software +is used and how the license for our software is enforced. Compliance with the +reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term +sustainability of our software and community. + +Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the +contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that +individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our +community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and +growth of our software ecosystem. In order to deter unhelpful enforcement +actions, we agree that it is in the best interests of our development +community to undertake the following commitment to users of the Linux kernel +on behalf of ourselves and any successors to our copyright interests: + + Notwithstanding the termination provisions of the GPL-2.0, we agree that + it is in the best interests of our development community to adopt the + following provisions of GPL-3.0 as additional permissions under our + license with respect to any non-defensive assertion of rights under the + license. + + However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license + from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally, + unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally + terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder + fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to + 60 days after the cessation. + + Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is + reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the + violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have + received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that + copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after + your receipt of the notice. + +Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the +software. We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute +this software. We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to +eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or +enforcement that might limit adoption of our software. We view legal action +as a last resort, to be initiated only when other community efforts have +failed to resolve the problem. + +Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feel +welcome to join us in our efforts on this project. Working together, we will +be stronger. + +Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company +we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. + + - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro) + - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat) + - Neil Armstrong + - Jens Axboe + - Pablo Neira Ayuso + - Khalid Aziz + - Ralf Baechle + - Felipe Balbi + - Arnd Bergmann + - Ard Biesheuvel + - Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat) + - Christian Borntraeger + - Mark Brown (Linaro) + - Paul Burton + - Javier Martinez Canillas + - Rob Clark + - Jonathan Corbet + - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux) + - Hans de Goede (Red Hat) + - Mel Gorman (SUSE) + - Sven Eckelmann + - Alex Elder (Linaro) + - Fabio Estevam + - Larry Finger + - Bhumika Goyal + - Andy Gross + - Juergen Gross + - Shawn Guo + - Ulf Hansson + - Tejun Heo + - Rob Herring + - Masami Hiramatsu + - Michal Hocko + - Simon Horman + - Johan Hovold (Hovold Consulting AB) + - Christophe JAILLET + - Olof Johansson + - Lee Jones (Linaro) + - Heiner Kallweit + - Srinivas Kandagatla + - Jan Kara + - Shuah Khan (Samsung) + - David Kershner + - Jaegeuk Kim + - Namhyung Kim + - Colin Ian King + - Jeff Kirsher + - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) + - Christian König + - Vinod Koul + - Krzysztof Kozlowski + - Viresh Kumar + - Aneesh Kumar K.V + - Julia Lawall + - Doug Ledford (Red Hat) + - Chuck Lever (Oracle) + - Daniel Lezcano + - Shaohua Li + - Xin Long (Red Hat) + - Tony Luck + - Mike Marshall + - Chris Mason + - Paul E. McKenney + - David S. Miller + - Ingo Molnar + - Kuninori Morimoto + - Borislav Petkov + - Jiri Pirko + - Josh Poimboeuf + - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora) + - Guenter Roeck + - Joerg Roedel + - Leon Romanovsky + - Steven Rostedt (VMware) + - Ivan Safonov + - Ivan Safonov + - Anna Schumaker + - Jes Sorensen + - K.Y. Srinivasan + - Heiko Stuebner + - Jiri Kosina (SUSE) + - Dmitry Torokhov + - Linus Torvalds + - Thierry Reding + - Rik van Riel + - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba) + - Daniel Vetter + - Linus Walleij + - Richard Weinberger + - Dan Williams + - Rafael J. Wysocki + - Arvind Yadav + - Masahiro Yamada + - Wei Yongjun + - Lv Zheng -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From d950770f628d54f74f995d9ec495733ab2fe9e60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:16:15 -0700 Subject: Documentation: add my name to supporters Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 1e23d4227337..44c286b50e92 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Juergen Gross - Shawn Guo - Ulf Hansson + - Stephen Hemminger (Microsoft) - Tejun Heo - Rob Herring - Masami Hiramatsu -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From e3aca5508d509363778bda04b1fd53731d809fce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eduardo Valentin Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2017 08:06:53 -0700 Subject: Documentation: update kernel enforcement support list Adding myself to the list as I missed the window to be in the original patch. Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Bart Van Assche Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Olof Johansson Cc: Juergen Gross Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas Signed-off-by: Eduardo Valentin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 44c286b50e92..e55c20f8e2d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -146,3 +146,4 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Masahiro Yamada - Wei Yongjun - Lv Zheng + - Eduardo Valentin -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 3587cddfacf67cf50d288572453eb47ff2603575 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Trond Myklebust Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:11:58 -0400 Subject: Add ack for Trond Myklebust to the enforcement statement Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index e55c20f8e2d0..b02c8cf8918f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - David S. Miller - Ingo Molnar - Kuninori Morimoto + - Trond Myklebust - Borislav Petkov - Jiri Pirko - Josh Poimboeuf -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 513a6f750b836dd17bb6fe69aa83be59557903f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Dalessandro Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 12:34:54 -0700 Subject: Documentation: Sign kernel enforcement statement 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index b02c8cf8918f..32b461f08f8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Javier Martinez Canillas - Rob Clark - Jonathan Corbet + - Dennis Dalessandro - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux) - Hans de Goede (Red Hat) - Mel Gorman (SUSE) -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From b4714784df6afdf90e8bb70c381110e4299fab40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Laura Abbott Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 16:20:47 -0700 Subject: Documentation: Add myself to the enforcement statement list I already Acked the patch, add my name to the list as well. Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 32b461f08f8b..421142690e7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ be stronger. Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. + - Laura Abbott - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro) - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat) - Neil Armstrong -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 2c0c5c208bb8233d2d76327e3379375c01785c4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Saeger Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 15:23:53 -0500 Subject: Documentation: fix ref to coccinelle content Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst index 6df19943dd4d..26b106071364 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ variety of potential coding problems; it can also propose fixes for those problems. Quite a few "semantic patches" for the kernel have been packaged under the scripts/coccinelle directory; running "make coccicheck" will run through those semantic patches and report on any problems found. See -Documentation/coccinelle.txt for more information. +Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst for more information. Other kinds of portability errors are best found by compiling your code for other architectures. If you do not happen to have an S/390 system or a -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From c8a8b7e672b74276abadcd987452acc8dc473aca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrea Arcangeli Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:32:16 +0200 Subject: Documentation: kernel-enforcement-statement.rst: Remove Red Hat markings Doc update because significance of corporate affiliation was unclear. Acked-by: Doug Ledford Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini Acked-by: Hans de Goede Acked-by: Xin Long Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Richard Fontana Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 421142690e7f..b2ae0405ccc0 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Laura Abbott - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro) - - Andrea Arcangeli (Red Hat) + - Andrea Arcangeli - Neil Armstrong - Jens Axboe - Pablo Neira Ayuso @@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Felipe Balbi - Arnd Bergmann - Ard Biesheuvel - - Paolo Bonzini (Red Hat) + - Paolo Bonzini - Christian Borntraeger - Mark Brown (Linaro) - Paul Burton @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Jonathan Corbet - Dennis Dalessandro - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux) - - Hans de Goede (Red Hat) + - Hans de Goede - Mel Gorman (SUSE) - Sven Eckelmann - Alex Elder (Linaro) @@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Viresh Kumar - Aneesh Kumar K.V - Julia Lawall - - Doug Ledford (Red Hat) + - Doug Ledford - Chuck Lever (Oracle) - Daniel Lezcano - Shaohua Li - - Xin Long (Red Hat) + - Xin Long - Tony Luck - Mike Marshall - Chris Mason -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From b92ca54eb563df0d1963d2a4f5cac1713c581a8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Catalin Marinas Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:15:26 +0100 Subject: Documentation: Add Arm Ltd to kernel-enforcement-statement.rst Adding a couple of names on behalf of Arm Ltd. Acked-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index b2ae0405ccc0..3f884ebfb844 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Shaohua Li - Xin Long - Tony Luck + - Catalin Marinas (Arm Ltd) - Mike Marshall - Chris Mason - Paul E. McKenney @@ -150,3 +151,4 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Wei Yongjun - Lv Zheng - Eduardo Valentin + - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd) -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 191643403b770d6adbc10a5bb5ed539845e9d1ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:01:49 +0200 Subject: Documentation: kernel-enforcement-statement.rst: proper sort names 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 --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 3f884ebfb844..ba8c525eeee1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -130,7 +130,6 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Leon Romanovsky - Steven Rostedt (VMware) - Ivan Safonov - - Ivan Safonov - Anna Schumaker - Jes Sorensen - K.Y. Srinivasan @@ -141,6 +140,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Thierry Reding - Rik van Riel - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba) + - Eduardo Valentin (Amazon.com) - Daniel Vetter - Linus Walleij - Richard Weinberger @@ -150,5 +150,4 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Masahiro Yamada - Wei Yongjun - Lv Zheng - - Eduardo Valentin - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd) -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 8e0f1168f80acf6de4bcf68482e5e10d363d653c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Martin K. Petersen" Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 09:03:20 -0400 Subject: Documentation: Add my name to kernel enforcement statement The kernel enforcement statement commit had my Acked-by: but missed my name in the document signatures. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index ba8c525eeee1..ce2c5130d37f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Ingo Molnar - Kuninori Morimoto - Trond Myklebust + - Martin K. Petersen (Oracle) - Borislav Petkov - Jiri Pirko - Josh Poimboeuf -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From e16e437024abdbb8d08d8371fb2d9c99522df136 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bird, Timothy" Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 20:30:46 +0000 Subject: Documentation: Add Tim Bird to list of enforcement statement endorsers Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Tim Bird Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index ce2c5130d37f..d03b1a419dd6 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Felipe Balbi - Arnd Bergmann - Ard Biesheuvel + - Tim Bird - Paolo Bonzini - Christian Borntraeger - Mark Brown (Linaro) -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 707f5a0ff5e5c21422d5fb8797782d3fe8b51f35 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Willy Tarreau Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 07:54:11 +0100 Subject: doc: add Willy Tarreau to the list of enforcement statement endorsers add me to the list. Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index d03b1a419dd6..3f2d44e492c1 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -137,6 +137,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - K.Y. Srinivasan - Heiko Stuebner - Jiri Kosina (SUSE) + - Willy Tarreau - Dmitry Torokhov - Linus Torvalds - Thierry Reding -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From e1b48c209ebf99487f9941193b6c4e0a684a7c8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frank Rowand Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 12:50:58 -0700 Subject: Documentation: Add Frank Rowand to list of enforcement statement endorsers Add my name to the list. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst index 3f2d44e492c1..b3170671a1df 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future. - Joerg Roedel - Leon Romanovsky - Steven Rostedt (VMware) + - Frank Rowand - Ivan Safonov - Anna Schumaker - Jes Sorensen -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7 From 8ee25f6fcfa967da26c5dfa43c731a61f84f7404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 14:23:09 +0100 Subject: Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet --- Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/process') diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst index 1b7728b19ea7..645fa9c7388a 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst @@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The tags in common use are: which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst. Code without a proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline. + - Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer + along with the original author. This is useful at times when multiple + people work on a single patch. Note, this person also needs to have a + Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well. + - Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for inclusion into the kernel. -- cgit v1.3-8-gc7d7