linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/26] staging: ccree: SPDXify driver

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Date:   Mon, 1 Jan 2018 14:53:08 +0100
From:   Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>
To:     Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Ofir Drang <ofir.drang@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/26] staging: ccree: SPDXify driver

Gilad,

On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 1:06 PM, Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com> wrote:
> Replace verbatim GPL v2 copy with SPDX tag.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@...yossef.com>

<snip>

> --- a/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_crypto_ctx.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ccree/cc_crypto_ctx.h
> @@ -1,18 +1,5 @@
> -/*
> - * Copyright (C) 2012-2017 ARM Limited or its affiliates.
> - *
> - * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> - * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> - * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> - *
> - * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> - * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> - * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> - * GNU General Public License for more details.
> - *
> - * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> - * along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
> - */
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +// Copyright (C) 2012-2017 ARM Limited or its affiliates.
>

For a .h file the style should be C comments as explained in Thomas
doc patches. .e.g.

> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */

And then it might makes sense there too:

> +/* Copyright (C) 2012-2017 ARM Limited or its affiliates. */

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne