linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer

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Message-ID: <fe0ab9ae-3b71-7d63-053c-53b6dab95ef6@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Oct 2018 21:20:55 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     Loic Tourlonias <loic.tourlonias.lkml@...il.com>
CC:     Chao Yu <yuchao0@...wei.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer

Hi Loic,

On 2018/10/8 18:41, Loic Tourlonias wrote:
> Add SPDX identifier to simplify header and remove whole license text
> 
> Signed-off-by: Loic Tourlonias <loic.tourlonias.lkml@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h | 23 ++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h b/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> index 00a0b58a0871..bdb1022981d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> @@ -1,32 +1,13 @@
>  #ifndef __LZ4DEFS_H__
>  #define __LZ4DEFS_H__
>  
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause

For *.h files, it seems SPDX Identifier should be /* SPDX-License-Identifier: */
rather than // SPDX-License-Identifier:

And I think it should be placed at the first line of the line, but I am not sure of that.

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>  /*
>   * lz4defs.h -- common and architecture specific defines for the kernel usage
>  
>   * LZ4 - Fast LZ compression algorithm
>   * Copyright (C) 2011-2016, Yann Collet.
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> + *
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>