Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 1/5] target/s390x: introduce internal.h

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 11.08.2017 16:21, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 11.08.2017 16:00, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 11.08.2017 09:46, David Hildenbrand wrote:
>>> cpu.h should only contain what really has to be accessed outside of
>>> target/s390x/. Add internal.h which can only be used inside target/s390x/.
>>>
>>> Move everything that isn't fast enough to run away and restructure it
>>> right away.
>>>
>>> Minor style fixes to avoid checkpatch warning to:
>>> - struct Lowcore: "{" goes into same line as typedef
>>> - struct LowCore: add spaces around "-" in array length calculations
>>> - time2tod() and tod2time(): move "{" to separate line
>>> - get_per_atmid(): add space between ")" and "?". Move cases by one char.
>>> - get_per_atmid(): drop extra paremthesis around (1 << 6)
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>> [...]
>>> diff --git a/target/s390x/internal.h b/target/s390x/internal.h
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..9a55271
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/target/s390x/internal.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,560 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * s390x internal definitions and helpers
>>> + *
>>> + *  Copyright (c) 2009 Ulrich Hecht
>>> + *
>>> + * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
>>> + * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
>>> + * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
>>> + * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
>>> + *
>>> + * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
>>> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
>>> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
>>> + * Lesser General Public License for more details.
>>> + *
>>> + * Contributions after 2012-10-29 are licensed under the terms of the
>>> + * GNU GPL, version 2 or (at your option) any later version.
>>
>> Slightly off-topic to your patch, but since you're at it anyway: AFAIK
>> the above sentence effectively means that we should update the copyright
>> boiler plate to GPL2+ nowadays. See
>> https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/lgpl-2.1.html section 3.
> 
> (not a license expert)
> 
> Do you want me to replace it also in cpu.h?

No, at least not directly here in this patch series. I think that's
something for a separate patch (we've got the same issue in cpu.c and
kvm.c), so just use the correct boilerplate text in internal.h here.

> Do we still need the remark about "contributions after 2012-10-29 are" ?

Once the license text has been updated, the remark can certainly go away.

 Thomas