License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shortha

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with a license

Many user space API headers have licensing information, which is either
incomplete, badly formatted or just a shorthand for referring to the
license under which the file is supposed to be. This makes it hard for
compliance tools to determine the correct license.

Update these files with an SPDX license identifier. The identifier was
chosen based on the license information in the file.

GPL/LGPL licensed headers get the matching GPL/LGPL SPDX license
identifier with the added 'WITH Linux-syscall-note' exception, which is
the officially assigned exception identifier for the kernel syscall
exception:

NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".

This exception makes it possible to include GPL headers into non GPL
code, without confusing license compliance tools.

Headers which have either explicit dual licensing or are just licensed
under a non GPL license are updated with the corresponding SPDX
identifier and the GPLv2 with syscall exception identifier. The format
is:
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR SPDX-ID-OF-OTHER-LICENSE)

SPDX license identifiers are a legally binding shorthand, which can be
used instead of the full boiler plate text. The update does not remove
existing license information as this has to be done on a case by case
basis and the copyright holders might have to be consulted. This will
happen in a separate step.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne. See the previous patch in this series for the
methodology of how this patch was researched.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

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rapidio/mport_cdev: fix uapi type definitions

Fix problems in uapi definitions reported by Gabriel Laskar: (see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/5/205 for details)

- move public header file rio_mport_

rapidio/mport_cdev: fix uapi type definitions

Fix problems in uapi definitions reported by Gabriel Laskar: (see
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/5/205 for details)

- move public header file rio_mport_cdev.h to include/uapi/linux directory
- change types in data structures passed as IOCTL parameters
- improve parameter checking in some IOCTL service routines

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Gabriel Laskar <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Barry Wood <[email protected]>
Cc: Gabriel Laskar <[email protected]>
Cc: Matt Porter <[email protected]>
Cc: Aurelien Jacquiot <[email protected]>
Cc: Andre van Herk <[email protected]>
Cc: Barry Wood <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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