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Date:   Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:52:38 +0100
From:   David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:     Mukesh Ojha <mojha@...eaurora.org>, Hanna Hawa <hhhawa@...zon.com>,
        tsahee@...apurnalabs.com, antoine.tenart@...tlin.com,
        linux@...linux.org.uk, catalin.marinas@....com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] irqchip/alpine-msi: Update driver license to use
 SPDX

On Sun, 2019-03-31 at 18:16 +0530, Mukesh Ojha wrote:
> On 3/31/2019 6:04 PM, Hanna Hawa wrote:
> > Update driver license to be in-line with Linux conventions.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Hanna Hawa <hhhawa@...zon.com>
> > ---
> >   drivers/irqchip/irq-alpine-msi.c | 5 +----
> >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-alpine-msi.c
> > b/drivers/irqchip/irq-alpine-msi.c
> > index ae2fca7..ec6a606 100644
> > --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-alpine-msi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-alpine-msi.c
> > @@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> 
> 
> Please fix this as per.
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/13/570

I find myself struggling to care. And that was even before I spotted:

$ grep -A6 "Style" Documentation/process/license-rules.rst 
2. Style:

   The SPDX license identifier is added in form of a comment.  The comment
   style depends on the file type::

      C source:	// SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      C header:	/* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */



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