Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: eisa: add SPDX license identifier

[Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>]

Thanks for looping me in Jon.

On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:57:22 +0100,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> wrote:
> 
> Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Add the missing SPDX-License-Identifier tag to the eisa.rst
> > documentation file.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ilai Levin <levinilai972@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | 2 ++
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > index 3563e5f7e..e98b21b60 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +
> 
> This is probably just fine, but it's worth asking the original author
> (copied) whether that was the intent; we can't just slap an arbitrary
> license onto the work of others.

I'm perfectly happy with GPL-2.0. So FWIW:

Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>

> (One could also ask whether we need this document at all in 2026, but
> that is a separate question...:)

I'd be even happier with a bulk removal of anything related to the
EISA bus. I haven't touched it in about 20 years, the only machine I
have left (an Alpha Jensen) has been disconnect for that long, and
support removed from the tree 2.5 years ago...

Thanks,

	M.

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