linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] xfs: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgN=Ox112_O=GQ-kwMxYduix9gZFsr1GXXJWLpDpNDm5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 27 Apr 2020 12:40:58 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@...cle.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@...il.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-xfs <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfs: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:59 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> There's no real reason not to prefer the latest versions
> over the deprecated ones.

Joe, your pedantic approach is really hard to work with. Please work on it.

The fact is, there *is * a reason to avoid the pedantic "change to new
version" - pointless churn.

We have a lot of the original style spdx markers, because those are
what we started with. And changing them is pointless.

I know you love your scripts to change things around, but to everybody
else it tends to be just extra work and noise.

              Linus