[alsa-devel] [PATCH v2 2/3] treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note" from kernel-space headers again

Thomas Gleixner tglx at linutronix.de
Thu Jul 25 10:40:34 CEST 2019


On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:

> The "WITH Linux-syscall-note" exception exists for headers exported to
> user space. It is strange to add it to non-exported headers.
> 
> Commit 687a3e4d8e61 ("treewide: remove SPDX "WITH Linux-syscall-note"
> from kernel-space headers") did cleanups some months ago, but it looks
> like we need to do this periodically.
> 
> This patch was generated by the following script:
> 
>   git grep -l -e Linux-syscall-note \
>     -- :*.h :^arch/*/include/uapi/asm/*.h :^include/uapi/ :^tools |
>   while read file
>   do
>           sed -i -e 's/(\(GPL-[^[:space:]]*\) WITH Linux-syscall-note)/\1/g' \
>           -e 's/ WITH Linux-syscall-note//g' $file
>   done
> 
> I did not commit drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h . This header is
> not currently exported, but somebody may plan to move it to include/uapi/
> when the time comes. I am not sure. Anyway, it will be better to check
> the license inconsistency in drivers/staging/android/uapi/.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>


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