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Subject: Re: [Patch v6 02/12] [media] s5p-mfc: Adding initial support for MFC
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On 01/18/18 13:36, Smitha T Murthy wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 14:25 +0100, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
>> Smitha,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Smitha T Murthy <smitha.t@samsung.com> wrote:
>>> Adding the support for MFC v10.10, with new register file and
>>> necessary hw control, decoder, encoder and structural changes.
>>>
>>> CC: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
>>> CC: devicetree@vger.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Smitha T Murthy <smitha.t@samsung.com>
>>> Reviewed-by: Andrzej Hajda <a.hajda@samsung.com>
>>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
>> []
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/s5p-mfc/regs-mfc-v10.h
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
>>> +/*
>>> + * Register definition file for Samsung MFC V10.x Interface (FIMV) driver
>>> + *
>>> + * Copyright (c) 2017 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
>>> + *     http://www.samsung.com/
>>> + *
>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
>>> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
>>> + */
>>
>> Have you considered using the new SPDX ids instead of this fine legalese? e.g.:
>>
>> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>
>> This is much shorter and neater (unless you are a legalese lover of
>> course!)  Check also Thomas doc patches and Linus comments on why he
>> prefers the C++ comment style for these.
>>
>> And even better could be this more compact form? I am a big fan of the
>> C++ style comments for these (and so is Linus)
>>
>> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>> // Copyright (c) 2017 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
>> // Register definition file for Samsung MFC V10.x Interface (FIMV) driver
>>
>> You can also read this fine article from a fellow Samsung colleague
>> [1]. And if you ever consider doing this for all Samsung's past,
>> present and future contributions, you will have my deep gratitude
>>
>> [1] https://blogs.s-osg.org/linux-kernel-license-practices-revisited-spdx/
>>
> Ok I will change to the SPDX license in the next patch series for the
> v10 register file. Correspondingly for the MFC driver's files I will
> update the license as a separate patch and submit.
> 

Ah, I forgot about this series. I'll try to review it tomorrow or Monday.

Sorry about the delay,

	Hans