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Date:   Mon, 29 Apr 2019 19:50:36 +0530
From:   Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] nds32: Use the correct style for SPDX License
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 08:35:38PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, Nishad Kamdar wrote:
> 
> > This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style
> > in the nds32 Hardware Architecture related files.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@gmail.com>
> 
> Actually instead of doing that we should fix the documentation. The
> requirement came from older binutils because they barfed on // style
> comments in ASM files. That's history as we upped the minimal binutil
> requirement.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx

Ok.

So according to license-rules.rst,
which says

"This has been fixed by now, but there are still older assembler
tools which cannot handle C++ style comments."

Now there are no assembler tools which cannot handle C++ comments ?
and the document should be changed accordingly ?

Thanks for the review.

Regards,
Nishad