linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/10] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Remove filename from header and switch to SPDX

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Message-ID: <20171213170045.GQ6416@sirena.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 17:00:45 +0000
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>, alsa-devel@...a-project.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] ASoC: tlv320aic32x4: Remove filename from header
 and switch to SPDX

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 10:13:21AM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:

> My regex is a bit too rusty right now to handle searching for multi-line
> examples, do you know of anyone else converting the whole block to C++
> style?

> Things will look a lot uglier if we do this inconsistently, if it is now
> the law of the land we do this for the first line, then we should have
> it be the only exception. Everywhere else remaining old style comments,
> IMHO.

I think that's just the limited tooling people are using right now,
we'll need to clean up the automatically generated output.  Unless
people provide tools to enforce styles we're going to end up with
divergence anyway as people start adding new files, they ought to be
going in with SPDX headers.

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