Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] leds: trigger: Introduce a NETDEV trigger

From: Pavel Machek <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 15:27:07 +0100

On Thu 2017-12-07 14:01:39, Philippe Ombredanne wrote:
> Ben,
> 
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:46 PM, Ben Whitten <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > From: Ben Whitten <[email-masked]>
> >
> > This commit introduces a NETDEV trigger for named device
> > activity. Available triggers are link, rx, and tx.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Whitten <[email-masked]>
> []
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-netdev.c
> > @@ -0,0 +1,503 @@
> > +/*
> > + * LED Kernel Netdev Trigger
> > + *
> > + * Toggles the LED to reflect the link and traffic state of a named net device
> > + *
> > + * Copyright 2017 Ben Whitten <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * Copyright 2007 Oliver Jowett <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * Derived from ledtrig-timer.c which is:
> > + *  Copyright 2005-2006 Openedhand Ltd.
> > + *  Author: Richard Purdie <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
> > + * published by the Free Software Foundation.
> > + *
> > + */
> 
> Have you considered using the new SPDX id instead ? See Thomas doc
> patches and Greg and Linus comments on the topic
> Here this would likely come out this way (yes, using a C++ comment at the top):
> 
> > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +/*
> > + * LED Kernel Netdev Trigger
> > + *
> > + * Toggles the LED to reflect the link and traffic state of a named net device
> > + *
> > + * Copyright 2017 Ben Whitten <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * Copyright 2007 Oliver Jowett <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + * Derived from ledtrig-timer.c which is:
> > + *  Copyright 2005-2006 Openedhand Ltd.
> > + *  Author: Richard Purdie <[email-masked]>
> > + *
> > + */
> 
> 
> This is cleaner and simpler, don't you think?

Please consider putting SPDX where it logically belongs -- near the
copyright.

									Pavel
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