linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some kernel files

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Message-ID: <CA+55aFycwb--5x3B7uCV8L=9SLsqJr0pHaSf3oKrT-sy8=7tpg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Nov 2017 10:32:17 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] License cleanup: add SPDX license identifiers to some
 kernel files

On Thu, Nov 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> So to me, the "just put it as the first syntactically possible line,
> and just always use the same comment format" is simply to avoid
> unnecessary arguments/conflicts about which of any number of ways you
> *could* do it.

Side note: I'm not going to enforce it, it's just a personal wish to
hopefully make my life easier.

This pull request from Greg already has different comment formats for
different files. I pulled it despite that.

                  Linus