8 files changed, 370 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst b/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst
index af2c0af931d6..be00716071d4 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/3.Early-stage.rst
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ matter is (1) kernel developers tend to be busy, (2) there is no shortage
 of people with grand plans and little code (or even prospect of code) to
 back them up, and (3) nobody is obligated to review or comment on ideas
 posted by others.  Beyond that, high-level designs often hide problems
-which are only reviewed when somebody actually tries to implement those
+which are only revealed when somebody actually tries to implement those
 designs; for that reason, kernel developers would rather see the code.
 
 If a request-for-comments posting yields little in the way of comments, do
diff --git a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
index 6df19943dd4d..26b106071364 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst
@@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ variety of potential coding problems; it can also propose fixes for those
 problems.  Quite a few "semantic patches" for the kernel have been packaged
 under the scripts/coccinelle directory; running "make coccicheck" will run
 through those semantic patches and report on any problems found.  See
-Documentation/coccinelle.txt for more information.
+Documentation/dev-tools/coccinelle.rst for more information.
 
 Other kinds of portability errors are best found by compiling your code for
 other architectures.  If you do not happen to have an S/390 system or a
diff --git a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
index 1b7728b19ea7..645fa9c7388a 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/5.Posting.rst
@@ -213,6 +213,11 @@ The tags in common use are:
    which can be found in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst.  Code without a
    proper signoff cannot be merged into the mainline.
 
+ - Co-Developed-by: states that the patch was also created by another developer
+   along with the original author.  This is useful at times when multiple
+   people work on a single patch.  Note, this person also needs to have a
+   Signed-off-by: line in the patch as well.
+
  - Acked-by: indicates an agreement by another developer (often a
    maintainer of the relevant code) that the patch is appropriate for
    inclusion into the kernel.
diff --git a/Documentation/process/index.rst b/Documentation/process/index.rst
index 82fc399fcd33..a430f6eee756 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/index.rst
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Below are the essential guides that every developer should read.
    submitting-patches
    coding-style
    email-clients
+   kernel-enforcement-statement
+   kernel-driver-statement
 
 Other guides to the community that are of interest to most developers are: 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..60d9d868f300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-driver-statement.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,199 @@
+Kernel Driver Statement
+-----------------------
+
+Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
+==========================================
+
+
+We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source
+Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have
+repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and
+the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness,
+stability, flexibility, and maintainability of the Linux development
+model and shut their users off from the expertise of the Linux
+community. Vendors that provide closed-source kernel modules force their
+customers to give up key Linux advantages or choose new vendors.
+Therefore, in order to take full advantage of the cost savings and
+shared support benefits open source has to offer, we urge vendors to
+adopt a policy of supporting their customers on Linux with open-source
+kernel code.
+
+We speak only for ourselves, and not for any company we might work for
+today, have in the past, or will in the future.
+
+ - Dave Airlie
+ - Nick Andrew
+ - Jens Axboe
+ - Ralf Baechle
+ - Felipe Balbi
+ - Ohad Ben-Cohen
+ - Muli Ben-Yehuda
+ - Jiri Benc
+ - Arnd Bergmann
+ - Thomas Bogendoerfer
+ - Vitaly Bordug
+ - James Bottomley
+ - Josh Boyer
+ - Neil Brown
+ - Mark Brown
+ - David Brownell
+ - Michael Buesch
+ - Franck Bui-Huu
+ - Adrian Bunk
+ - François Cami
+ - Ralph Campbell
+ - Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
+ - Mauro Carvalho Chehab
+ - Denis Cheng
+ - Jonathan Corbet
+ - Glauber Costa
+ - Alan Cox
+ - Magnus Damm
+ - Ahmed S. Darwish
+ - Robert P. J. Day
+ - Hans de Goede
+ - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
+ - Helge Deller
+ - Jean Delvare
+ - Mathieu Desnoyers
+ - Sven-Thorsten Dietrich
+ - Alexey Dobriyan
+ - Daniel Drake
+ - Alex Dubov
+ - Randy Dunlap
+ - Michael Ellerman
+ - Pekka Enberg
+ - Jan Engelhardt
+ - Mark Fasheh
+ - J. Bruce Fields
+ - Larry Finger
+ - Jeremy Fitzhardinge
+ - Mike Frysinger
+ - Kumar Gala
+ - Robin Getz
+ - Liam Girdwood
+ - Jan-Benedict Glaw
+ - Thomas Gleixner
+ - Brice Goglin
+ - Cyrill Gorcunov
+ - Andy Gospodarek
+ - Thomas Graf
+ - Krzysztof Halasa
+ - Harvey Harrison
+ - Stephen Hemminger
+ - Michael Hennerich
+ - Tejun Heo
+ - Benjamin Herrenschmidt
+ - Kristian Høgsberg
+ - Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
+ - Marcel Holtmann
+ - Mike Isely
+ - Takashi Iwai
+ - Olof Johansson
+ - Dave Jones
+ - Jesper Juhl
+ - Matthias Kaehlcke
+ - Kenji Kaneshige
+ - Jan Kara
+ - Jeremy Kerr
+ - Russell King
+ - Olaf Kirch
+ - Roel Kluin
+ - Hans-Jürgen Koch
+ - Auke Kok
+ - Peter Korsgaard
+ - Jiri Kosina
+ - Mariusz Kozlowski
+ - Greg Kroah-Hartman
+ - Michael Krufky
+ - Aneesh Kumar
+ - Clemens Ladisch
+ - Christoph Lameter
+ - Gunnar Larisch
+ - Anders Larsen
+ - Grant Likely
+ - John W. Linville
+ - Yinghai Lu
+ - Tony Luck
+ - Pavel Machek
+ - Matt Mackall
+ - Paul Mackerras
+ - Roland McGrath
+ - Patrick McHardy
+ - Kyle McMartin
+ - Paul Menage
+ - Thierry Merle
+ - Eric Miao
+ - Akinobu Mita
+ - Ingo Molnar
+ - James Morris
+ - Andrew Morton
+ - Paul Mundt
+ - Oleg Nesterov
+ - Luca Olivetti
+ - S.Çağlar Onur
+ - Pierre Ossman
+ - Keith Owens
+ - Venkatesh Pallipadi
+ - Nick Piggin
+ - Nicolas Pitre
+ - Evgeniy Polyakov
+ - Richard Purdie
+ - Mike Rapoport
+ - Sam Ravnborg
+ - Gerrit Renker
+ - Stefan Richter
+ - David Rientjes
+ - Luis R. Rodriguez
+ - Stefan Roese
+ - Francois Romieu
+ - Rami Rosen
+ - Stephen Rothwell
+ - Maciej W. Rozycki
+ - Mark Salyzyn
+ - Yoshinori Sato
+ - Deepak Saxena
+ - Holger Schurig
+ - Amit Shah
+ - Yoshihiro Shimoda
+ - Sergei Shtylyov
+ - Kay Sievers
+ - Sebastian Siewior
+ - Rik Snel
+ - Jes Sorensen
+ - Alexey Starikovskiy
+ - Alan Stern
+ - Timur Tabi
+ - Hirokazu Takata
+ - Eliezer Tamir
+ - Eugene Teo
+ - Doug Thompson
+ - FUJITA Tomonori
+ - Dmitry Torokhov
+ - Marcelo Tosatti
+ - Steven Toth
+ - Theodore Tso
+ - Matthias Urlichs
+ - Geert Uytterhoeven
+ - Arjan van de Ven
+ - Ivo van Doorn
+ - Rik van Riel
+ - Wim Van Sebroeck
+ - Hans Verkuil
+ - Horst H. von Brand
+ - Dmitri Vorobiev
+ - Anton Vorontsov
+ - Daniel Walker
+ - Johannes Weiner
+ - Harald Welte
+ - Matthew Wilcox
+ - Dan J. Williams
+ - Darrick J. Wong
+ - David Woodhouse
+ - Chris Wright
+ - Bryan Wu
+ - Rafael J. Wysocki
+ - Herbert Xu
+ - Vlad Yasevich
+ - Peter Zijlstra
+ - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
diff --git a/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b3170671a1df
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/process/kernel-enforcement-statement.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement
+----------------------------------
+
+As developers of the Linux kernel, we have a keen interest in how our software
+is used and how the license for our software is enforced.  Compliance with the
+reciprocal sharing obligations of GPL-2.0 is critical to the long-term
+sustainability of our software and community.
+
+Although there is a right to enforce the separate copyright interests in the
+contributions made to our community, we share an interest in ensuring that
+individual enforcement actions are conducted in a manner that benefits our
+community and do not have an unintended negative impact on the health and
+growth of our software ecosystem.  In order to deter unhelpful enforcement
+actions, we agree that it is in the best interests of our development
+community to undertake the following commitment to users of the Linux kernel
+on behalf of ourselves and any successors to our copyright interests:
+
+    Notwithstanding the termination provisions of the GPL-2.0, we agree that
+    it is in the best interests of our development community to adopt the
+    following provisions of GPL-3.0 as additional permissions under our
+    license with respect to any non-defensive assertion of rights under the
+    license.
+
+	However, if you cease all violation of this License, then your license
+	from a particular copyright holder is reinstated (a) provisionally,
+	unless and until the copyright holder explicitly and finally
+	terminates your license, and (b) permanently, if the copyright holder
+	fails to notify you of the violation by some reasonable means prior to
+	60 days after the cessation.
+
+	Moreover, your license from a particular copyright holder is
+	reinstated permanently if the copyright holder notifies you of the
+	violation by some reasonable means, this is the first time you have
+	received notice of violation of this License (for any work) from that
+	copyright holder, and you cure the violation prior to 30 days after
+	your receipt of the notice.
+
+Our intent in providing these assurances is to encourage more use of the
+software.  We want companies and individuals to use, modify and distribute
+this software.  We want to work with users in an open and transparent way to
+eliminate any uncertainty about our expectations regarding compliance or
+enforcement that might limit adoption of our software.  We view legal action
+as a last resort, to be initiated only when other community efforts have
+failed to resolve the problem.
+
+Finally, once a non-compliance issue is resolved, we hope the user will feel
+welcome to join us in our efforts on this project.  Working together, we will
+be stronger.
+
+Except where noted below, we speak only for ourselves, and not for any company
+we might work for today, have in the past, or will in the future.
+
+  - Laura Abbott
+  - Bjorn Andersson (Linaro)
+  - Andrea Arcangeli
+  - Neil Armstrong
+  - Jens Axboe
+  - Pablo Neira Ayuso
+  - Khalid Aziz
+  - Ralf Baechle
+  - Felipe Balbi
+  - Arnd Bergmann
+  - Ard Biesheuvel
+  - Tim Bird
+  - Paolo Bonzini
+  - Christian Borntraeger
+  - Mark Brown (Linaro)
+  - Paul Burton
+  - Javier Martinez Canillas
+  - Rob Clark
+  - Jonathan Corbet
+  - Dennis Dalessandro
+  - Vivien Didelot (Savoir-faire Linux)
+  - Hans de Goede
+  - Mel Gorman (SUSE)
+  - Sven Eckelmann
+  - Alex Elder (Linaro)
+  - Fabio Estevam
+  - Larry Finger
+  - Bhumika Goyal
+  - Andy Gross
+  - Juergen Gross
+  - Shawn Guo
+  - Ulf Hansson
+  - Stephen Hemminger (Microsoft)
+  - Tejun Heo
+  - Rob Herring
+  - Masami Hiramatsu
+  - Michal Hocko
+  - Simon Horman
+  - Johan Hovold (Hovold Consulting AB)
+  - Christophe JAILLET
+  - Olof Johansson
+  - Lee Jones (Linaro)
+  - Heiner Kallweit
+  - Srinivas Kandagatla
+  - Jan Kara
+  - Shuah Khan (Samsung)
+  - David Kershner
+  - Jaegeuk Kim
+  - Namhyung Kim
+  - Colin Ian King
+  - Jeff Kirsher
+  - Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation)
+  - Christian König
+  - Vinod Koul
+  - Krzysztof Kozlowski
+  - Viresh Kumar
+  - Aneesh Kumar K.V
+  - Julia Lawall
+  - Doug Ledford
+  - Chuck Lever (Oracle)
+  - Daniel Lezcano
+  - Shaohua Li
+  - Xin Long
+  - Tony Luck
+  - Catalin Marinas (Arm Ltd)
+  - Mike Marshall
+  - Chris Mason
+  - Paul E. McKenney
+  - David S. Miller
+  - Ingo Molnar
+  - Kuninori Morimoto
+  - Trond Myklebust
+  - Martin K. Petersen (Oracle)
+  - Borislav Petkov
+  - Jiri Pirko
+  - Josh Poimboeuf
+  - Sebastian Reichel (Collabora)
+  - Guenter Roeck
+  - Joerg Roedel
+  - Leon Romanovsky
+  - Steven Rostedt (VMware)
+  - Frank Rowand
+  - Ivan Safonov
+  - Anna Schumaker
+  - Jes Sorensen
+  - K.Y. Srinivasan
+  - Heiko Stuebner
+  - Jiri Kosina (SUSE)
+  - Willy Tarreau
+  - Dmitry Torokhov
+  - Linus Torvalds
+  - Thierry Reding
+  - Rik van Riel
+  - Geert Uytterhoeven (Glider bvba)
+  - Eduardo Valentin (Amazon.com)
+  - Daniel Vetter
+  - Linus Walleij
+  - Richard Weinberger
+  - Dan Williams
+  - Rafael J. Wysocki
+  - Arvind Yadav
+  - Masahiro Yamada
+  - Wei Yongjun
+  - Lv Zheng
+  - Marc Zyngier (Arm Ltd)
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
index afb82ee0cbea..b38bf2054ce3 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-drivers.rst
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ PM support:
 		anything.  For the driver testing instructions see
 		Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt and for a relatively
 		complete overview of the power management issues related to
-		drivers see Documentation/power/admin-guide/devices.rst .
+		drivers see Documentation/driver-api/pm/devices.rst.
 
 Control:
 		In general if there is active maintenance of a driver by
diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
index 733478ade91b..1ef19d3a3eee 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
@@ -621,14 +621,14 @@ The canonical patch subject line is::
 
 The canonical patch message body contains the following:
 
-  - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author (only needed if the person
-    sending the patch is not the author).
-
-  - An empty line.
+  - A ``from`` line specifying the patch author, followed by an empty
+    line (only needed if the person sending the patch is not the author).
 
   - The body of the explanation, line wrapped at 75 columns, which will
     be copied to the permanent changelog to describe this patch.
 
+  - An empty line.
+
   - The ``Signed-off-by:`` lines, described above, which will
     also go in the changelog.