Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] clk: npcm7xx: add clock controler. fixed clock at DT

From: Philippe Ombredanne
Date: Fri Feb 16 2018 - 07:28:44 EST


Tali,

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Tali Perry <tali.perry1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/clk/clk-npcm7xx.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,759 @@
> +/*
> + * Nuvoton NPCM7xx Clock Generator
> + * All the clocks are initialized by the bootloader, so this driver allow only
> + * reading of current settings directly from the hardware.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2018 Nuvoton Technologies tali.perry@xxxxxxxxxxx
> + *
> + * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> + * Released under the GPLv2 only.
> + */

Thank you for using the SPDX tags! but this can be streamlined a bit per [1]

The correct way would come out as this: (note the tag placement and
comment style and the removal of the now redundant unstructured
notice)

> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/*
> + * Nuvoton NPCM7xx Clock Generator
> + * All the clocks are initialized by the bootloader, so this driver allow only
> + * reading of current settings directly from the hardware.
> + *
> + * Copyright (C) 2018 Nuvoton Technologies tali.perry@xxxxxxxxxxx
> + */

And yes you may be surprised by the use of C++ style comment for
this... This has been discussed on list and is what Linus prefers.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
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Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne