Re: [PATCH v2] x86/PCI: Correct warnings about missing or incorrect SPDX license headers.

From: Bjorn Helgaas
Date: Mon Sep 30 2019 - 18:58:38 EST


On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 03:53:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Wilczynski wrote:
> Add the missing "SPDX-License-Identifier" license header
> to the arch/x86/pci/numachip.c (use the GPL-2.0 identifier
> derived using the comment mentioning license from the
> top of the file), and remove license boilerplate as per
> a similar commit 8cfab3cf63cf ("PCI: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 to
> replace GPL v2 boilerplate").
>
> Correct existing SPDX license header in the files
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h and
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h to use
> correct comment style as per the section 2 "Style"
> of the "Linux kernel licensing rules" (see:
> Documentation/process/license-rules.rst).
>
> Both changes will resolve the following checkpatch.pl
> script warning:
>
> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to pci/misc for v5.5, thanks!

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> Update wording and mention checkpatch.pl script warnings.
> Add two C header files to which the fix also applies.
>
> arch/x86/pci/numachip.c | 5 +----
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h | 2 +-
> drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/pci/numachip.c b/arch/x86/pci/numachip.c
> index 2e565e65c893..01a085d9135a 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/pci/numachip.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/pci/numachip.c
> @@ -1,8 +1,5 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> /*
> - * This file is subject to the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public
> - * License. See the file "COPYING" in the main directory of this archive
> - * for more details.
> - *
> * Numascale NumaConnect-specific PCI code
> *
> * Copyright (C) 2012 Numascale AS. All rights reserved.
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h
> index ae6bf2a2b3d3..f1cba3931b99 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-cadence.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> // Copyright (c) 2017 Cadence
> // Cadence PCIe controller driver.
> // Author: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h
> index 8e87a059ce73..53e4f9e59624 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h
> +++ b/drivers/pci/controller/pcie-rockchip.h
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
> /*
> * Rockchip AXI PCIe controller driver
> *
> --
> 2.22.1
>