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From: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] checkpatch: don't complain about SPDX tag
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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:11:43 -0700
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On 18-04-17 03:06 PM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 17/04/2018 23:49, Stephen Hemminger:
>> IMHO would have been better to use the kernel SPDX style and
>> keep the check but that appears to be a minority opinion.
> I think it is better to work on checkpatch itself.
> When defining our SPDX style, Linux one was not definitive.
> Do you think we can ask the Linux community to support our SPDX style?
>
I think it better to simply follow the Linux community defacto style 
rather than go your own way.