Re: [PATCH net-next v5 2/2] net: ethernet: socionext: add AVE ethernet driver

[Philippe Ombredanne]

Dear Kunihiko-san,

On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Kunihiko Hayashi
<hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The UniPhier platform from Socionext provides the AVE ethernet
> controller that includes MAC and MDIO bus supporting RGMII/RMII
> modes. The controller is named AVE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kunihiko Hayashi <hayashi.kunihiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
[...]
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/Makefile
> @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

You are correctly using SPDX ids here....

> +obj-$(CONFIG_SNI_AVE) += sni_ave.o
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..7b293c2
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/socionext/sni_ave.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,1744 @@
> +/**
> + * sni_ave.c - Socionext UniPhier AVE ethernet driver
> + *
> + * Copyright 2014 Panasonic Corporation
> + * Copyright 2015-2017 Socionext Inc.
> + *
> + * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2  of
> + * the License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
> + *
> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
> + * GNU General Public License for more details.
> + */

... then I guess you could also use them here, replacing at least 7
lines of boilerplate by a single id line?

> +// SDPX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

And if you go C++ style all the way, this could be even more compact:

> +// SDPX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +// sni_ave.c - Socionext UniPhier AVE ethernet driver
> +// Copyright 2014 Panasonic Corporation
> +// Copyright 2015-2017 Socionext Inc.

Thank you for your kind consideration!

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne