Re: [PATCH 04/21] eeprom: at24: use SPDX identifier instead of GPL boiler-plate

[Peter Rosin]

On 2018-03-19 13:12, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> 2018-03-19 12:03 GMT+01:00 Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> Also, use a // style comment for the SPDX line in C files.
> 
> I'm seeing both /* */ and // style comments used for SPDX headers - is
> there any reason not to use /* */ here?

Documentation/process/license-rules.rst states:

2. Style:

   The SPDX license identifier is added in form of a comment.  The comment
   style depends on the file type::

      C source: // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      C header: /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
      ASM:      /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
      scripts:  # SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      .rst:     .. SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
      .dts{i}:  // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>

Read more in that file for reasons. If there are none, I personally
think the reason is that "Linus said so". Or something like that?

Cheers,
Peter