[PATCH 1/9 v3] staging: spi: mt7621: Switch to SPDX identifier

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Mon Feb 4 08:53:02 UTC 2019


On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 09:34:56AM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:

>  It is extremely common in the kernel for a file to start
>    // SPDX-License-Identifier.....

>  and to have that immediately followed by a comment lile:

>  /*
>   * .....
>   * ....

Yes, there was a lot of automated conversion AFAICT (and a lot of
confusion with all this stuff only being documented in random mailing
list posts for a long time).

>  This patch makes this file match much of the rest of the kernel.  Why
>  do you want something different?

Like I said because it makes the comments look more like someone
actually meant to add a C++ comment - it's what the rest of the
subsystem is doing too.
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