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

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Thu Jul 25 2019 - 14:04:21 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>