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Thomas Gleixner 38197ca176 block: Cleanup license notice
Remove the imprecise and sloppy:

  "This files is licensed under the GPL."

license notice in the top level comment.

1) The file already contains a SPDX license identifier which clearly
   states that the license of the file is GPL V2 only

2) The notice resolves to GPL v1 or later for scanners which is just
   contrary to the intent of SPDX identifiers to provide clear and non
   ambiguous license information. Aside of that the value add of this
   notice is below zero,

Cc: Damien Le Moal <damien.lemoal@wdc.com>
Cc: Matias Bjorling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6a5ac98465 ("block: Make struct request_queue smaller for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_ZONED=n")
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2019-01-17 21:21:40 -07:00
Documentation block: doc: add slice_idle_us to bfq documentation 2019-01-09 07:38:48 -07:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
arch Merge branch 'for-linus-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2019-01-02 18:39:22 -08:00
block block: Cleanup license notice 2019-01-17 21:21:40 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
drivers nvme-pci: fix nvme_setup_irqs() 2019-01-16 09:44:28 -07:00
firmware firmware: refactor firmware/Makefile 2018-12-23 10:10:32 +09:00
fs blockdev: Fix livelocks on loop device 2019-01-15 07:30:56 -07:00
include Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md into for-linus 2019-01-03 08:21:02 -07:00
init Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux 2018-12-28 20:08:34 -08:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel NFS client updates for Linux 4.21 2019-01-02 16:35:23 -08:00
lib Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md into for-linus 2019-01-03 08:21:02 -07:00
mm block: don't use un-ordered __set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE) 2019-01-02 10:46:03 -08:00
net NFS client updates for Linux 4.21 2019-01-02 16:35:23 -08:00
samples Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 09:48:13 -08:00
scripts Tracing changes for v4.21: 2018-12-31 11:46:59 -08:00
security Merge branch 'next-tpm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 11:05:43 -08:00
sound xen: features and fixes for 4.21 2018-12-26 11:35:07 -08:00
tools Merge branch 'next-seccomp' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-01-02 09:48:13 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt mm/mmu_notifier: use structure for invalidate_range_start/end callback 2018-12-28 12:11:50 -08:00
.clang-format page cache: Convert find_get_pages_contig to XArray 2018-10-21 10:46:34 -04:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support for DT binding schema checks 2018-12-13 09:41:32 -06:00
.mailmap Merge tag 'nand/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next 2018-12-18 19:59:16 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: remove unused cmd_gentimeconst 2018-12-25 00:10:30 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge branch 'for-linus-4.21-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2019-01-02 18:39:22 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 12:03:17 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.