ieee802154: Add support for user beaconing requests

Parse user requests for sending beacons, start sending beacons at a
regular pace. If needed, the pace can be updated with a new request. The
proce

ieee802154: Add support for user beaconing requests

Parse user requests for sending beacons, start sending beacons at a
regular pace. If needed, the pace can be updated with a new request. The
process can also be interrupted at any moment.

The page and channel must be changed beforehands if needed. Interval
orders above 14 are reserved to tell a device it must answer BEACON_REQ
coming from another device as part of an active scan procedure and this
is not yet supported.

A netlink "beacon request" structure is created to list the
requirements.

Mac layers may now implement the ->send_beacons() and
->stop_beacons() hooks.

Co-developed-by: David Girault <david.girault@qorvo.com>
Signed-off-by: David Girault <david.girault@qorvo.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230125102923.135465-2-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

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ieee802154: Add support for user scanning requests

The ieee802154 layer should be able to scan a set of channels in order
to look for beacons advertizing PANs. Supporting this involves adding
two us

ieee802154: Add support for user scanning requests

The ieee802154 layer should be able to scan a set of channels in order
to look for beacons advertizing PANs. Supporting this involves adding
two user commands: triggering scans and aborting scans. The user should
also be notified when a new beacon is received and also upon scan
termination.

A scan request structure is created to list the requirements and to be
accessed asynchronously when changing channels or receiving beacons.

Mac layers may now implement the ->trigger_scan() and ->abort_scan()
hooks.

Co-developed-by: David Girault <david.girault@qorvo.com>
Signed-off-by: David Girault <david.girault@qorvo.com>
Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230103165644.432209-2-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com
Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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nl802154: add support for security layer

This patch adds support for accessing mac802154 llsec implementation
over nl802154. I added for a new Kconfig entry to provide this
functionality CONFIG_IEEE

nl802154: add support for security layer

This patch adds support for accessing mac802154 llsec implementation
over nl802154. I added for a new Kconfig entry to provide this
functionality CONFIG_IEEE802154_NL802154_EXPERIMENTAL. This interface is
still in development. It provides to change security parameters and
add/del/dump entries of security tables. Later we can add also a get to
get an entry by unique identifier.

Cc: Phoebe Buckheister <phoebe.buckheister@itwm.fraunhofer.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: add ack request default handling

This patch introduce a new mib entry which isn't part of 802.15.4 but
useful as default behaviour to set the ack request bit or not if we
don't know if t

ieee802154: add ack request default handling

This patch introduce a new mib entry which isn't part of 802.15.4 but
useful as default behaviour to set the ack request bit or not if we
don't know if the ack request bit should set. This is currently used for
stacks like IEEE 802.15.4 6LoWPAN.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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cfg802154: add PM hooks

This patch help to implement suspend/resume in mac802154, these
hooks will be run before the device is suspended and after it
resumes.

Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@c

cfg802154: add PM hooks

This patch help to implement suspend/resume in mac802154, these
hooks will be run before the device is suspended and after it
resumes.

Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@cdac.in>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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nl802154: add support to set cca ed level

This patch adds support for setting the current cca ed level value over
nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Varka

nl802154: add support to set cca ed level

This patch adds support for setting the current cca ed level value over
nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Varka Bhadram <varkabhadram@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: add set transmit power support

This patch adds transmission power setting support for IEEE-802.15.4
devices via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@cdac.in>
Acked-by: Alexand

ieee802154: add set transmit power support

This patch adds transmission power setting support for IEEE-802.15.4
devices via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@cdac.in>
Acked-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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cfg802154: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()

This code is based on commit 6bab2e19c5ffd
("cfg80211: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()")

This will expose in sysfs wheth

cfg802154: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()

This code is based on commit 6bab2e19c5ffd
("cfg80211: pass name_assign_type to rdev_add_virtual_intf()")

This will expose in sysfs whether the ifname of a IEEE-802.15.4
device is set by userspace or generated by the kernel.
We are using two types of name_assign_types
o NET_NAME_ENUM: Default interface name provided by kernel
o NET_NAME_USER: Interface name provided by user.

Signed-off-by: Varka Bhadram <varkab@cdac.in>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: Add trace events for rdev->ops

Enabling tracing via

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/cfg802154/enable

enables event tracing like

iwpan dev wpan0 set pan_id 0xbeef
cat /sys

ieee802154: Add trace events for rdev->ops

Enabling tracing via

echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/cfg802154/enable

enables event tracing like

iwpan dev wpan0 set pan_id 0xbeef
cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
# tracer: nop
#
# entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2/2 #P:1
#
# _-----=> irqs-off
# / _----=> need-resched
# | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
# || / _--=> preempt-depth
# ||| / delay
# TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | |||| | |
iwpan-2663 [000] .... 170.369142: 802154_rdev_set_pan_id: phy0, wpan_dev(1), pan id: 0xbeef
iwpan-2663 [000] .... 170.369177: 802154_rdev_return_int: phy0, returned: 0

Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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nl802154: introduce support for cca settings

This patch adds support for setting cca parameters via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <m

nl802154: introduce support for cca settings

This patch adds support for setting cca parameters via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: fix byteorder for short address and panid

This patch changes the byteorder handling for short and panid handling.
We now except to get little endian in nl802154 for these attributes.

Si

ieee802154: fix byteorder for short address and panid

This patch changes the byteorder handling for short and panid handling.
We now except to get little endian in nl802154 for these attributes.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: add del interface command

This patch adds support for deleting a wpan interface via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marce

ieee802154: add del interface command

This patch adds support for deleting a wpan interface via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: setting extended address while iface add

This patch adds support for setting an extended address while
registration a new interface. If ieee802154_is_valid_extended_addr
getting as param

ieee802154: setting extended address while iface add

This patch adds support for setting an extended address while
registration a new interface. If ieee802154_is_valid_extended_addr
getting as parameter and invalid extended address then the perm address
is fallback. This is useful to make some default handling while for
example default registration of a wpan interface while phy registration.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee802154: add new interface command

This patch adds a new nl802154 command for adding a new interface
according to a wpan phy via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
S

ieee802154: add new interface command

This patch adds a new nl802154 command for adding a new interface
according to a wpan phy via nl802154.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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mac802154: remove const for non pointer in rdev-ops

This patches removes the const keyword in variables which are non
pointers. There is no sense to declare call by value parameters as
const.

Signe

mac802154: remove const for non pointer in rdev-ops

This patches removes the const keyword in variables which are non
pointers. There is no sense to declare call by value parameters as
const.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add lbt setting support

This patch adds support for setting listen before transmit mode via
nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc

ieee820154: add lbt setting support

This patch adds support for setting listen before transmit mode via
nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add max frame retries setting support

This patch add support for setting mac frame retries setting via
nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-o

ieee820154: add max frame retries setting support

This patch add support for setting mac frame retries setting via
nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add max csma backoffs setting support

This patch add support for max csma backoffs setting via nl802154
framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: M

ieee820154: add max csma backoffs setting support

This patch add support for max csma backoffs setting via nl802154
framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add backoff exponent setting support

This patch adds support for setting backoff exponents via nl802154
framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: M

ieee820154: add backoff exponent setting support

This patch adds support for setting backoff exponents via nl802154
framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add short_addr setting support

This patch adds support for setting short address via nl802154 framework.
Also added a comment because a 0xffff seems to be valid address that we
don't hav

ieee820154: add short_addr setting support

This patch adds support for setting short address via nl802154 framework.
Also added a comment because a 0xffff seems to be valid address that we
don't have a short address. This is a valid setting but we need
more checks in upper layers to don't allow this address as source address.
Also the current netlink interface doesn't allow to set the short_addr
to 0xffff. Same for the 0xfffe short address which describes a not
allocated short address.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add pan_id setting support

This patch adds support for setting pan_id via nl802154 framework.
Adding a comment because setting 0xffff as pan_id seems to be valid
setting. The pan_id 0xff

ieee820154: add pan_id setting support

This patch adds support for setting pan_id via nl802154 framework.
Adding a comment because setting 0xffff as pan_id seems to be valid
setting. The pan_id 0xffff as source pan is invalid. I am not sure now
about this setting but for the current netlink interface this is an
invalid setting, so we do the same now. Maybe we need to change that
when we have coordinator support and association support.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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ieee820154: add channel set support

This patch adds page and channel setting support to nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <mar

ieee820154: add channel set support

This patch adds page and channel setting support to nl802154 framework.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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cfg802154: convert deprecated iface add and del

This patch removes the wpan_phy callbacks for add and del an interface
on a phy. Instead we introduce deprecated cfg802154 callbacks for this.
Further

cfg802154: convert deprecated iface add and del

This patch removes the wpan_phy callbacks for add and del an interface
on a phy. Instead we introduce deprecated cfg802154 callbacks for this.
Furthermore we introduce a new netlink interface nl802154 which use
different callbacks. The deprecated function is to have a backwards
compatibility with the current netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

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License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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