Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/5] ethtool: move string arrays into common file

[Michal Kubecek]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 09:27:54PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> > +++ b/net/ethtool/common.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note
> 
> Is the Linux-syscall-note relevant here? This isn't really used for
> syscalls directly?
> 
> The exception says it's "to mark user space API (uapi) header files so
> they can be included into non GPL compliant user space application
> code".

I'm hardly an expert but almost all occurences of "Linux-syscall-note"
are in UAPI headers so you are most likely right. IIRC I copied the line
into include/uapi/linux/ethtool_netlink.h (which was the first new file)
from neighbor ethtool.h and then used the same in all other files.

I'll send a v3 with "GPL-2.0-only" (as there also seems to be a trend of
moving to SPDX v3 identifiers) in a moment.

Michal

> 
> > +++ b/net/ethtool/common.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
> 
> Same here.
> 
> johannes
>