Re: [v5 2/6] dmaengine: fsl-qdma: Add qDMA controller driver for Layerscape SoCs

Vinod
2018-06-12T04:00:31Z

On 05-06-18, 12:24, Li Yang wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Vinod <vkoul@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On 04-06-18, 09:53, Wen He wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> >> > > +// Copyright 2018 NXP
> >> >
> >> > I know the SPDX tag is recommended to be the 1st line, but copyright normally
> >> > goes below the file description not above.
> >
> > I do not think that is specified anywhere.. can you point it?
>
> No. It is not documented. But the majority of the source files in
> Linux are using this header format like below, so I assume it is
> something like a convention.
>
> /*
> * {filename --} file description
> *
> * Copyright ...
> *
> * License ...
> */
>
> The Documentation/process/license-rules.rst only mentioned about the
> requirement for SPDX tags. So I think we should keep the format for
> other part of the header.

And Linus said this https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/25/133

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~Vinod