linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spi: s3c64xx: add SPDX identifier

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Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:31:42 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>, Kukjin Kim <kgene@...nel.org>,
        linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: s3c64xx: add SPDX identifier

On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:13:26AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 11:07 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Apparently that's the thing for SPDX headers.

> Yes (although in sources one can find /* */ as well) but the rest of
> comment does not have to be changed in that case. With quick grep
> through sources I could not find such practice.

Yes, it's not great.  There was some discussion about it which you can
dig out of the archives indicating a desire to use C++ comments more but
there's not been much effort to communicate that and there's no tooling
to back it up so it's all messy.

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