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Date:   Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:59:27 -0700
From:   Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com,
        sassmann@...hat.com, jogreene@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers

On Tue, 2018-03-20 at 17:47 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:13:20 -0700
> Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> > b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> > index 29486478836e..a750a5fe373a 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> > @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> >  
> > /**********************************************************************
> > *********
> >   
> >     Intel PRO/100 Linux driver
> 
> SPDX makes things easier but I thought the advantage of SPDX
> was getting rid of the boilerplate! Can you convince the lawyers
> to drop the GPL boilerplate comment please.
> 
> It has already been done on other projects.

Its in the works.  Just waiting to hear back from the lawyers that it is ok
to remove the boiler plate headers, before I generate a patch to clean up
the Intel drivers.
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