[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: update licence for network headers

Hemant Agrawal hemant.agrawal at nxp.com
Fri Dec 15 11:54:07 CET 2017


On 12/14/2017 6:28 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 14/12/2017 12:33, Hemant Agrawal:
>> Thomas,
>> 	Before I rework,
>> 	What is your opinion w.r.t tooling in DPDK w.r.t SPDX.
>>
>> I saw a patch for checkpatch in Linux, which will also check for SPDX
>> presence for any new file, however this patch only checked first two
>> line for SPDX presence. (currently it is nak for other reasons)
>>
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10053699/
>>
>> If it makes easy for us, we can use the SPDX as first/second line
>> convention.
>
> I agree we should follow the convention chosen in Linux,
> because we may use the same tools.
> Is it already decided for Linux? Can we influence the decision for Linux?
>

I have posted my comments on other thread. Linux have good reasons to do 
it. If we have to use linux tool and common code, we shall adapt to same.


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