Subject: Re: [net-next] intel: add SPDX identifiers to all the Intel drivers

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 17:47:18 -0700

On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 10:13:20 -0700
Jeff Kirsher <[email-masked]> wrote:

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> index 29486478836e..a750a5fe373a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e100.c
> @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
>  /*******************************************************************************
>  
>    Intel PRO/100 Linux driver

SPDX makes things easier but I thought the advantage of SPDX
was getting rid of the boilerplate! Can you convince the lawyers
to drop the GPL boilerplate comment please.

It has already been done on other projects.