linux-toradex.git/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/msr.h, branch v6.7

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

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 
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne 
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/uapi: Do not export as part of the user API headers

2015-06-07T13:36:04+00:00

This header containing all MSRs and respective bit definitions
got exported to userspace in conjunction with the big UAPI
shuffle.

But, it doesn't belong in the UAPI headers because userspace can
do its own MSR defines and exporting them from the kernel blocks
us from doing cleanups/renames in that header. Which is
ridiculous - it is not kernel's job to export such a header and
keep MSRs list and their names stable.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-19-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/x86/include/asm

2012-12-14T22:37:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones