kernel/linux.git/include/uapi/linux/kernelcapi.h, branch linux-7.1.y

net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP

2026-04-23T17:24:02+00:00

Remove the ISDN (mISDN, CAPI) subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP protocol from the kernel tree. ISDN is a pretty old technology and it's unclear whether anyone still uses it. I went over the last few years of git history and all the commits are either tree-wide conversions or syzbot/static analyzer fixes. When we discussed removal in the past IIRC there were some concerns about ISDN still being used in parts of Germany. Unfortunately, the code base is quite old, none of the current maintainers are familiar with it and AI tools will have a field day finding bugs here. Delete this code and preserve it in an out-of-tree repository for any remaining users: https://github.com/linux-netdev/mod-orphan UAPI constants AF_ISDN/PF_ISDN and the SELinux isdn_socket class are preserved for ABI stability, but the rest of uAPI is removed. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Reviewed-by: Simon Horman Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260421022108.1299678-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni

License cleanup: add SPDX license identifier to uapi header files with no license

2017-11-02T10:19:54+00:00

Many user space API headers are missing licensing information, which makes it hard for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default are files without license information under the default license of the kernel, which is GPLV2. Marking them GPLV2 would exclude them from being included in non GPLV2 code, which is obviously not intended. The user space API headers fall under the syscall exception which is in the kernels COPYING file: 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". otherwise syscall usage would not be possible. Update the files which contain no license information with an SPDX license identifier. The chosen identifier is 'GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note' which is the officially assigned identifier for the Linux syscall exception. SPDX license identifiers are 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. See the previous patch in this series for the methodology of how this patch was researched. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux

2012-10-13T09:46:48+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Dave Jones