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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vt6656: Use the correct style for SPDX license
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From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
        Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
Cc:     Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>,
        devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:   Tue, 05 Feb 2019 10:59:40 -0800
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On Tue, 2019-02-05 at 19:44 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 08:36:24PM +0530, Nishad Kamdar wrote:
> > This patch corrects the style for SPDX license Identifier in mac.h
> > by using "/* */" in place of "//" as per Linux kernel licensing rules.
> > Issue found by checkpatch.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h | 4 ++--
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h b/drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h
> > index 94e700fcd0b6..75166020f7c6 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/mac.h
> > @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
> > -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> > -/*
> > +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> 
> Should really be:
> 
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */

There's a fair number of style inconsistencies in the kernel
sources for that already.

~8% of the .h files that have an 'SPDX-License-Identifier:'
don't use the recommended style.

$ git grep -h "SPDX-License" -- '*.h' | \
  perl -p -e 's@Identifier:.*\*/*@Identifier: ... */@; s@Identifier: [^\.].*@Identifier:@' | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
   8506 /* SPDX-License-Identifier: ... */
    593 // SPDX-License-Identifier:
    154 /* SPDX-License-Identifier:
     53  * SPDX-License-Identifier:
      1  * SPDX-License-Identifier:	GPL-2.0
      1 //SPDX-License-Identifier:
      1 /*  SPDX-License-Identifier: ... */