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Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 12:56:32 -0800
From:   David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Carlos Munoz <cmunoz@...ium.com>,
        David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, ralf@...ux-mips.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Steven J. Hill" <steven.hill@...ium.com>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...s.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] MIPS: Octeon: Add a global resource manager.

On 12/01/2017 12:41 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> David,
> 
> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 9:01 PM, David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com> wrote:
>> On 12/01/2017 11:49 AM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>>>
>>> David, Greg,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 6:42 PM, David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 11/30/2017 11:53 PM, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --- /dev/null
>>>>>>> +++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/resource-mgr.c
>>>>>>> @@ -0,0 +1,371 @@
>>>>>>> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>>>>>> +/*
>>>>>>> + * Resource manager for Octeon.
>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>> + * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU
>>>>>>> General
>>>>>>> Public
>>>>>>> + * License.  See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this
>>>>>>> archive
>>>>>>> + * for more details.
>>>>>>> + *
>>>>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2017 Cavium, Inc.
>>>>>>> + */
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Since you nicely included an SPDX id, you would not need the
>>>>> boilerplate anymore. e.g. these can go alright?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> They may not be strictly speaking necessary, but I don't think they hurt
>>>> anything.  Unless there is a requirement to strip out the license text,
>>>> we
>>>> would stick with it as is.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think the requirement is there and that would be much better for
>>> everyone: keeping both is redundant and does not bring any value, does
>>> it? Instead it kinda removes the benefits of having the SPDX id in the
>>> first place IMHO.
>>>
>>> Furthermore, as there have been already ~12K+ files cleaned up and
>>> still over 60K files to go, it would really nice if new files could
>>> adopt the new style: this way we will not have to revisit and repatch
>>> them in the future.
>>>
>>
>> I am happy to follow any style Greg would suggest.  There doesn't seem to be
>> much documentation about how this should be done yet.
> 
> Thomas (tglx) has already submitted a first series of doc patches a
> few weeks ago. And AFAIK he might be working on posting the updates
> soon, whenever his real time clock yields a few cycles away from real
> time coding work ;)
> 
> See also these discussions with Linus [1][2][3], Thomas[4] and Greg[5]
> on this and mostly related topics
> 
> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/2/715
> [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/125
> [3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/133
> [4] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/2/805
> [5] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/19/165
> 

OK, you convinced me.

Thanks,
David