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

From: Laura Abbott
Date: Mon May 07 2018 - 12:34:40 EST


On 05/07/2018 07:40 AM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 06:37:52AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
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

Under section 2 of "License identifier syntax" in the license rules
file, it shows the preferred style for each type of file. Apparently
there was some build breakage with // in header files so I assume they
want /* */ for uniformity sake.

Thanks!
Nathan


Ah thanks for pointing me to that. I parsed your commit text completely
wrong. My biggest concern is being consistent and not breaking anything
so assuming this patch aligns with that:

Acked-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>


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
*