linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH wireless-drivers] mt76x0: Remove VLA usage

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Message-ID: <87bmab3jaa.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:   Thu, 09 Aug 2018 13:51:09 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH wireless-drivers] mt76x0: Remove VLA usage

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 08, 2018 at 08:41:28AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> >> I thought SPDX line is needed only if file has no license and eeprom.c
>> >> file and other mt76x0 files have specified the license. Is SPDX still
>> >> needed in that case ?
>> 
>> I thought all source files needed SPDX: https://lwn.net/Articles/739183/
>
> Ok, goal is to have all kernel source files with SPDX header.

Yeah, it's a goal but I don't think it's a hard requirement yet. At
least I don't see it as a reason to reject patches.

And besides, mt76 uses ISC license and that's not in LICENSES directory.
So someone should add that first, and I think that patch should go via
Jonathan Corbet's tree (CCed).

-- 
Kalle Valo