Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: android: ion: Fix license identifier comment format

[Laura Abbott]

On 05/06/2018 06:18 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> checkpatch.pl complains these are invalid because the rules in
> Documentation/process/license-rules.rst state that C headers should
> have "/* */" style comments.

The SPDX markings are special, but I don't see anything from a
quick read of the SPDX specification that says they have to use //.
I think this is going to generate a lot of possible noise so it
might be worth adjusting checkpatch.

Thanks,
Laura

> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h  | 2 +-
>   drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h | 2 +-
>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> index ea0897812780..16cbd38a7160 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>   /*
>    * drivers/staging/android/ion/ion.h
>    *
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> index 825d3e95ccd3..5d7009884c13 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
>   /*
>    * drivers/staging/android/uapi/ion.h
>    *