Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: add SPDX identifer

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Oct 08 2018 - 10:22:33 EST


On Mon, Oct 08, 2018 at 04:14:09PM +0200, Loic Tourlonias wrote:
> Add SPDX identifier to simplify header and remove whole license text
>
> v1 -> v2:
>
> Move SPDX identifier to first line and change comment delimiter

The "changes" need to go below the --- line.

>
> Signed-off-by: Loic Tourlonias <loic.tourlonias.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h | 24 ++----------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h b/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> index 00a0b58a0871..cdacc57e6a08 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/lz4defs.h
> @@ -1,32 +1,12 @@
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause*/
> #ifndef __LZ4DEFS_H__
> #define __LZ4DEFS_H__
> -
> /*

Why delete that line?

But wait, why do we even have this file at all? What's wrong with the
lib/lz4/ code that we have in the kernel today? Shouldn't the code
using these files be moved over to use the lib/ code instead and this
file be deleted?

thanks,

greg k-h