linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] pwm: cros-ec: Switch to SPDX identifier.

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jun 2018 11:08:48 +0200
From:   Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@...il.com>
To:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Gwendal Grignou <gwendal@...omium.org>, kernel@...labora.com,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] pwm: cros-ec: Switch to SPDX identifier.

On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 07:54:27PM +0200, Enric Balletbo i Serra wrote:
> Adopt the SPDX license identifier headers to ease license compliance
> management.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2: None
> 
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c | 13 ++++---------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c
> index 9c13694eaa24..9bf4cde86765 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-cros-ec.c
> @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
> -/*
> - * Copyright (C) 2016 Google, Inc
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> - * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by
> - * the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
> - * Expose a PWM controlled by the ChromeOS EC to the host processor.
> - */
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +// Expose a PWM controlled by the ChromeOS EC to the host processor.
> +//
> +// Copyright (C) 2016 Google, Inc.

This is odd. I understand that for some reason there is an exception for
SPDX license identifies to use C++ style comments, but why would you
make the whole comment C++ style? Why not just something like the below:

+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 /*
  * Copyright (C) 2016 Google, Inc
  *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
- * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2, as published by
- * the Free Software Foundation.
- *
  * Expose a PWM controlled by the ChromeOS EC to the host processor.
  */

Thierry

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