linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 3/8] MIPS: Octeon: Add a global resource manager.

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Date:   Fri, 1 Dec 2017 12:01:02 -0800
From:   David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     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 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.

David Daney