Re: [PATCH] xfs: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 12:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:59 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > There's no real reason not to prefer the latest versions
> > over the deprecated ones.
> 
> Joe, your pedantic approach is really hard to work with. Please work on it.

License text especially _should_ be pedantic and precise.

> The fact is, there *is * a reason to avoid the pedantic "change to new
> version" - pointless churn.

Have you *looked* at this proposed change?

It just changes // SPDX comments to /* */ in .h files.

It's generically useless churn as using the // style in .h files
was only for old and now unsupported compiler versions.

> We have a lot of the original style spdx markers, because those are
> what we started with. And changing them is pointless.

You and I (and apparently the SPDX group too as they deprecated it)
disagree a bit here.

> I know you love your scripts to change things around, but to everybody
> else it tends to be just extra work and noise.

Piecemeal changes aren't great.

Scripted changes can be very useful and I believe they
are significantly underutilized in this source tree.

cheers, Joe