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Since crash utility has been moved to github, the original URL is no
longer available. Let's update it accordingly.
Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a088bff5-1174-25fa-ac26-6e46795f4085@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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For the "machtype" boot parameter,
fix word spacing, line wrap, and plural of "laptops".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c9059e35-188d-a749-1907-767b53479328@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix capitalization in two headings, correct one verb, and
demote one heading to a section heading.
Fixes: 791a17ee1973 ("docs: filesystems: convert mount_api.txt to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/adaf123c-b394-f78c-53c0-671d7fda45e7@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add document entry for kvm_cma_resv_ratio kernel param which
is used to alter the KVM contiguous memory allocation percentage
for hash pagetable allocation used by hash mode PowerPC KVM guests.
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200921090220.14981-1-sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Replaced the link to the datasheet by a link to the current version.
Signed-off-by: Wilken Gottwalt <wilken.gottwalt@mailbox.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200923065954.GA22809@monster.powergraphx.local
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Following the structure used in sysctl/kernel.rst, this updates
abi.rst to use ReStructured Text more fully and updates the entries to
match current kernels:
* the list of files is now the table of contents;
* links are used to point to other documentation and other sections;
* all the existing entries are no longer present, so this removes
them;
* document vsyscall32.
Mentions of the kernel version are dropped. Since the document is
entirely rewritten, I've replaced the copyright statement.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911190152.29730-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Subroutine dump_struct uses type attributes to check if the struct
syntax is valid. Then, it removes all attributes before using it for
output. `____cacheline_aligned` is an attribute that is
not included in both steps. Add it, since it is used by kernel structs.
Based on previous patch to add ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp.
Motivated by patches to reorder this attribute to before the
variable name. Whilst we could do that in all cases, that would
be a massive change and it is more common in the kernel to place
this particular attribute after the variable name. A quick grep
suggests approximately 400 instances of which 341 have this
attribute just before a semicolon and hence after the variable name.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200910185415.653139-1-jic23@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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arm64 also supports disable hugeiomap,updated documentation.
Signed-off-by: Tian Tao <tiantao6@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1599740386-47210-1-git-send-email-tiantao6@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The migrate_vma_setup(), migrate_vma_pages(), and migrate_vma_finalize()
API usage by device drivers is not well documented.
Add a description for how device drivers are expected to use it.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909212956.20104-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Document the notes file in sysfs as the running vmlinux's .note section
in binary format. Hopefully this helps someone like me realize the
kernel exposes the note section in sysfs in the future. Take the date
from when the file was introduced. It's been a while so presumably this
is stable and not testing material.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200909063752.931283-1-swboyd@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The syntax to cross-reference between documentation pages wasn't
documented anywhere.
Document the cross-referencing using the new automarkup for
Documentation/... and also Sphinx's doc directive for using relative
paths.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-4-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Cross-referencing to other documentation pages is possible using the
:doc:`doc-file` directive from Sphinx.
Add automatic markup for references to other documentation pages in the
format Documentation/subfolder/doc-file.rst (the extension being
optional).
This requires that the path be passed all the way from the Documentation
folder, which can be longer than passing a relative path through the
:doc: directive, but avoids the markup, making the text cleaner when
read in plain text.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The automarkup script previously matched expressions and substituted
them with markup to enable automatic cross-reference all in the same
function.
Split the expression matching iteration and the markup substitution into
different functions to make it easier to add new regular expressions and
functions to treat each of them.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-2-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There's a warning at iio.h kernel-doc markup:
./include/linux/iio/iio.h:644: WARNING: Unknown target name: "devm".
Because it is using {devm_}foo notation. Well, this is not
a valid kernel-doc notation. Also, it prevents creating hyperlinks
to other documentation functions.
So, replace it to a better notation.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d8f2275c438c459ede4e6fba03ce719cc6ad898b.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are two broken references at submitting-patches.rst:
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:240: WARNING: undefined label: security-bugs (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:336: WARNING: undefined label: documentation/process/email-clients.rst (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Those are due to some recent renames and file moves.
It turns that maintaining :ref: is currently harder than using
:doc:, as we now have a script to help checking such references.
So, replace :ref: to :doc: there, making them to point to the
current file name.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ba405f579cf35ef2b39dd210d8ad46adc79f0ad.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix those warnings:
Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst:182: WARNING: Title underline too short.
Indefinite DMA Fences
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Documentation/driver-api/dma-buf.rst:88: WARNING: Unknown target name: "fence poll support".
The first one is due to a shorter markup. The second one is
because the chapter name was wrong.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b2bc0bc88eb913635cfece13cc9f6eff7668d333.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Currently, sphinx emits one warning on this file:
Documentation/driver-api/soundwire/stream.rst:522: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
That's due to some extra spaces before the title of a chapter.
Yet, the list afterwards is missing identation.
So, address both issues.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/eddde9f8d121e27d7968b3d747064e16de8bec4f.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There are some warnings:
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4354: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4358: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst:4363: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Produced by the lack of identation on a single line. That
caused the literal block to end prematurely.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/b6b3679b6c2329dc9b16d397c289b5ade0184c63.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Fix those warnings:
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:108: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:185: WARNING: Inline literal start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:185: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Documentation/watch_queue.rst:184: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
The problem here is that the ``notation`` doesn't accept
multi lines. So, replace it to a code block using:
::
notation
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/42706310c09a6b4588a1a41078207246ad1238fa.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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There were some new file additions for Kernel 5.7 and 5.8
that weren't added at the corresponding index file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9fd4d04f0d122ff38b5342a0098d99cc2f546652.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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sysfs.txt was converted and renamed to sysfs.rst.
Update device_attr_show.cocci script accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/048ed24b09aefa0051d76396d6250e35e6ba035c.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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ethernet/qlogic/LICENSE.qla3xxx -> qlogic/LICENSE.qla3xxx
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4260c56b52dd269716f78c5f4369a14994014480.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This patch was moved out of staging.
Fixes: 2165b82fde82 ("docs: Move kprobes.rst from staging/ to trace/")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a6d4c62e19ab1510789418a3a5ad42980cd7ae3a.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The name of the directory where the schedule docs are
stored are wrong on those files.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a32c2bba17aa69dc18670b7de1a3a35bfa1e1f88.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This should solve bad error reports like this one:
./include/linux/iio/iio.h:0: WARNING: Unknown target name: "devm".
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/56eed0ba50cd726236acd12b11b55ce54854c5ea.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The default way of building documentation is to use
Sphinx toolchain installed via pip, inside the
Kernel tree main directory. That's what's recommended by:
scripts/sphinx-pre-install
As it usually provides a better version of this package
than the one installed, specially on LTS distros.
So, add the directories created by running the commands
suggested by the script.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ac4e23d556c7d95cb11d6d5c605f43e425b2c3c7.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This prevents the chapter headings from showing up in the table of
contents in filesystems/index.html.
Note that I didn't pick "UBIFS Authentication" as the document title,
because there is a chapter of the same name, and Sphinx complains about
multiple headings with the same name:
/.../Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst:207:
WARNING: duplicate label filesystems/ubifs-authentication:ubifs
authentication, other instance in
/.../Documentation/filesystems/ubifs-authentication.rst
Remove the :orphan: tag, as the document has been included into the
toctree.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200905204326.1378339-3-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200905204326.1378339-2-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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fourV CPUs should be four CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904101902.29560-1-song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Rename function name to the actual name referenced in
struct iio_sw_trigger_ops.
Signed-off-by: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@lemonage.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200904091911.269715-1-poeschel@lemonage.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add Sphinx reference links to HMM and CPUSETS, and numerous small
editorial changes to make the page_migration.rst document more readable.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902225247.15213-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Add to Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst that patch
submitters should run "make htmldocs" and verify that any
Documentation/ changes (patches) are clean (no new warnings/errors).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/cf5bbdf5-03ff-0606-a6d4-ca196d90aee9@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Commit a4232963757e ("driver-core: Move kobj_to_dev from genhd.h to device.h")
introduced kobj_to_dev() function.
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200830144135.6956-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Commit 15322a0d90b6 ("lsm: remove current_security()") removed
current_security() from the sources.
Signed-off-by: Denis Efremov <efremov@linux.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200830142509.5738-1-efremov@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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bcache.rst is from the original bcache.txt which was merged in mainline
kernel v3.10. There are a few things changed in the past 7 years. This
patch updates bache.rst documents in following content,
- Update bcache-tools git repo to,
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/colyli/bcache-tools.git/
- Update bcache kernel tree to mainline kernel tree,
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/
- make-bcache util is replaced by the unified bcache util,
`make-bcache` now can be performed by `bcache make`
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821151354.16727-1-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The parameters in command examples for tpm2_createprimary and
tpm2_evictcontrol are outdated, people (like me) are not able to create
trusted key by these command examples.
This patch updates the parameters of command example tpm2_createprimary
and tpm2_evictcontrol in trusted-encrypted.rst. With Linux kernel v5.8
and tpm2-tools-4.1, people can create a trusted key by following the
examples in this document.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200821135356.15737-1-colyli@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The actual symbol that is exported and usable is
'KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP', not 'KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP'
$ git grep -l KVM_MEM_ENCRYPT_OP
Documentation/virt/kvm/amd-memory-encryption.rst
$ git grep -l KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP
Documentation/virt/kvm/api.rst
arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
While we're in there, update the KVM API category for
KVM_MEMORY_ENCRYPT_OP. It is called on a VM file descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Connor Kuehl <ckuehl@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200819211952.251984-1-ckuehl@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The Sphinx 3.x upgrade broke a number of things in our special "cdomain"
module that are not easy to fix. For now, just disable that module for the
3.x build and put out a warning that the build will not be perfect.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Git is fairly ubiquitous these days, and the additional information in
this documentation for preparing patches without it is not especially
relevant anymore and may serve to confuse new contributors.
The git request-pull comments were also removed, given that it is not a
tool well-suited to novice contributors, nor do maintainers especially
appreciate receiving unexpected request-pulls from new contributors.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-5-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The repeated sign-offs necessary when a subsystem maintainer modifies an
incoming patch has been moved from submitting-patches.rst to
Documentation/maintainer, since the affairs of a subsystem maintainer
are not especially relevant to someone reading a guide for how to submit
their first patch.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-4-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This adds a link to https://useplaintext.email to email-clients.rst,
which is a more exhaustive resource on configuring various mail clients
for plain text use. submitting-patches.rst is also updated to direct
readers to email-clients.rst to equip new contributors with the
requisite knowledge to become a good participant on the mailing lists.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-3-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This follows similar changes throughout Documentation; these numbers
tend to get outdated and are not especially useful.
Signed-off-by: Drew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903160545.83185-2-sir@cmpwn.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Update text and examples in the "Cross-referencing from
reStructuredText" section to reflect that no additional syntax is needed
anymore.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903005747.3900333-3-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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In order to cross-reference C types in the documentation, Sphinx
requires the syntax :c:type:`type_name`, or even :c:type:`struct
type_name <type_name>` in order to have the link text different from the
target text.
Extend automarkup to enable automatic cross-reference of C types by
matching any "struct|union|enum|typedef type_name" expression.
This makes the documentation's plain text cleaner and adds
cross-reference to types without any additional effort by the author.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200903005747.3900333-2-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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In the past, these email lists where located at lists.redhat.com. This
is not longer the case and they are now at redhat.com/mailman/listinfo
Signed-off-by: Javier Garcia <javier@beren.dev>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901090949.14514-1-javier@beren.dev
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Greg has challenged some recent driver submitters on their license
choices. He was correct to do so, as the choices in these instances
did not always advance the aims of the submitters.
But, this left submitters (and the folks who help them pick licenses)
a bit confused. They have read things like
Documentation/process/license-rules.rst which says:
individual source files can have a different license
which is required to be compatible with the GPL-2.0
and Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst:
We don't insist on any kind of exclusive GPL licensing,
and if you wish ... you may well wish to release under
multiple licenses.
As written, these appear a _bit_ more laissez faire than we've been in
practice lately. It sounds like we at least expect submitters to make
a well-reasoned license choice and to explain their rationale. It does
not appear that we blindly accept anything that is simply
GPLv2-compatible.
Drivers appear to be the most acute source of misunderstanding, so fix
the driver documentation first. Update it to clarify expectations.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <h.peter.anvin@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814145625.8B708079@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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It's now gone from the kernel so remove it from the deprecated API text.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/5e10c1645dd8f735215cf54a74db0f8dd3f6cbd5.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Based on a vote at the LLVM BoF at Plumbers 2020, we decided to start
small, supporting just one formal upstream release of LLVM for now.
We can probably widen the support window of supported versions over
time. Also, note that LLVM's release process is different than GCC's.
GCC tends to have 1 major release per year while releasing minor updates
to the past 3 major versions. LLVM tends to support one major release
and one minor release every six months.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200826191555.3350406-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The submitting patches mentions criteria for a fix to be called
"security fix". Add a link to document explaining the entire process
of handling security bugs.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200827105319.9734-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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