Re: [PATCH 05/12] arm64: dts: mt7622: add PMIC MT6380 related nodes

[Philippe Ombredanne]

Sean,
sorry for the late reply and thanks you for this research.

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Sean Wang <sean.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Currently, I'm really confused about what usage STYLE of SPDX license
> identifier I should use for each type of file.
>
> could you point me where I can find the related document describing SPDX
> usage style for those files expected by the community in the future?

The doc is in this patchset [1]

[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/28/326


> I found more than one way STYLE of SPDX present at current code, for
> example as below. If there's no absolute definition for them, and then
> which way that is better?
> 1)
> for *.dts, applied with "// " at head or within " /* */ " not at head
> such as
>
> arch/arm/boot/dts/bcm953012hr.dts:2: *  SPDX-License-Identifier:
> BSD-3-Clause

This is a "style bug". The comment style for .dts should be //

> 2)
> for *.c, applied with "// " at head or within " /* */ " not at head
> such as
> drivers/soc/xilinx/zynqmp/pm.c:10: * SPDX-License-Identifier:   GPL-2.0+

This is a "style bug". The comment style for .c should be //

> 3)
> for *.h, applied with "// " at head or within " /* */ " at head
> such as
> drivers/usb/dwc3/gadget.h:1:// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0

This is a "style bug". The comment style for .h should be /**/

> 4)
> no issue, Makefile, or Kconfig, definitely applied with "# " at head

That's the correct way.

So the net-net is that these "style bugs" should be fixed.

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne