Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

2017-11-11 Thread Joe Perches
On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 15:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 05:53:12AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been > > > decided to make them the first line

Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

2017-11-11 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 05:53:12AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been > > decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it: > > Yes, SPDX tags are used in about a qu

Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

2017-11-11 Thread Joe Perches
On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been > decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it: Yes, SPDX tags are used in about a quarter of the files in the kernel. Again, where is this shown to be des

[PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

2017-11-10 Thread Rob Herring
SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it: "The real reason _I_ personally would like to see at least all the new SPDX lines to go at the very top of the file is that every time when we have some kind of ambig