linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] input: pegasus_notetaker: add license information

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20171127075252.GA19416@kroah.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:52:52 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
Cc:     dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, pombredanne@...b.com,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] input: pegasus_notetaker: add license information

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:44:01AM +0100, Martin Kepplinger wrote:
> This adds an SPDX license identifier to this driver I wrote some time back.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Kepplinger <martink@...teo.de>
> ---
> 
> Thanks for the feedback. GPL2+ was what I had in mind. My bad. And as I
> already see a lot of SPDX tags using /**/ comments, I'll use that too.
> I think if it is hand-written, it shouldn't look too ugly. And in case
> that's really a no-go, it seems that many many files need to be changed
> again in any case.

.h files should be the only ones using /* */, and that is for the ones
that break the build if they use // (usually arch-specific and uapi
files)

So please use // as Linus asked to have done.

thanks,

greg k-h