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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Fix license identifier comment
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To:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
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From:   Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
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Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 09:34:33 -0700
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On 05/07/2018 07:40 AM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:37:52AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> On 05/06/2018 06:18 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
>>> checkpatch.pl complains these are invalid because the rules in
>>> Documentation/process/license-rules.rst state that C headers should
>>> have "/* */" style comments.
>>>
>>
>> The SPDX markings are special, but I don't see anything from a
>> quick read of the SPDX specification that says they have to use //.
>> I think this is going to generate a lot of possible noise so it
>> might be worth adjusting checkpatch.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Laura
> 
> Under section 2 of "License identifier syntax" in the license rules
> file, it shows the preferred style for each type of file. Apparently
> there was some build breakage with // in header files so I assume they
> want /* */ for uniformity sake.
> 
> Thanks!
> Nathan
> 

Ah thanks for pointing me to that. I parsed your commit text completely
wrong. My biggest concern is being consistent and not breaking anything
so assuming this patch aligns with that:

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
>>> ---
>>>    drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h  | 2 +-
>>>    drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
>>>    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
>>> index ea0897812780..16cbd38a7160 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>>>    /*
>>>     * drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
>>>     *
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>>> index 825d3e95ccd3..5d7009884c13 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
>>> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
>>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>>>    /*
>>>     * drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>>>     *
>>>
>>