From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4614C28CC6 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DC4C23F04 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:53:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726960AbfFDIxX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:53:23 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([217.72.192.75]:59539 "EHLO mout.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726873AbfFDIxX (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Jun 2019 04:53:23 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.110] ([95.118.47.44]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue108 [212.227.15.183]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 1MiakT-1gtEiv3grn-00fkgS; Tue, 04 Jun 2019 10:53:10 +0200 Subject: Re: [PATCH] treewide: refined: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 235 To: Greg KH Cc: Thomas Gleixner , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org References: <20190602204653.904365654@linutronix.de> <1559560444-31041-1-git-send-email-info@metux.net> <1559560444-31041-2-git-send-email-info@metux.net> <3c0115ec-54ba-56dc-9588-bfaa6736987b@metux.net> <20190604084759.GC1129@kroah.com> From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" Message-ID: <1977c56d-cbaa-9b09-2584-6d04286d8e81@metux.net> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2019 08:53:09 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190604084759.GC1129@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:mFsXHjqOD/hcveNprWiFyB+w6x+UrF0oaD4diPeHfkw9/yuRLDg JwLMkBYP9/zUTTA/6LPSHOQkIA+exypUGDxEJIyqOe/aQ3TRySvs6aalPMqrRuzm0EWDD6U hIR4Tp8dgMsN4stWF1AiSqIZGHkaCh+SbSV/jIWPn5JbgAG9nVjFjaQgPs5MZQn5c3WV7Mb 47r41mRYI+3n8RsoEC9dg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:Cw0TETDivAg=:Ho79Ff4EPaiLjZbBt2hlvb l2NmFAV+M4yqgfLZaakPn3z1I/A0iQuYNBh93gB+GbsFgSDj+8re1qukMy2RAvmvwFFvB0aPP QP9nyGt4pb3GcNoJYRUcNu9tqXbdUrTdR+Ma90yIfGHvhEaqOV3ShbIKQWPM7sMBoyB+04NL5 l/v3UvWBOeX7w+uacacj+1S+1K/TbrCemk7AokwREDDFzJQbMdcdFlsfCcCw2bRfpfYgcis0F 1u2AAkXpm3UeFzHgkesX6+lYV1yyg579EeJhHcRQS7wZ2j1ljit44Se8elvmAZczapyJVW5C7 ksZFYG4wnmJbN5JdgV1aH+XHWdNYhRRmZYipOw6Kq4eCUP5hlV+3xaHntgehvtAsPHWniwuRQ agmzzwc71JSMdR1PncilCRhUXhrOkj4Zf4kgMxloqMSNAzAG/+PldO93W+NNGtPD+4NS8cLGo yEO+zwU+5a8ocHiNDZGGPSMiQOKiOs1g7jvCAvPNmgCUbmdd/AGjIWJBeyfLTmrCgCaLi4FFa h73m5dsYYEl3oQbRTr0H1avHbliDfskAcnayUIM/9kZI9ftFWtv2fkbvoCcMeAiinNqcEbDXD 3GFTgSCcxSdRCmTf1OOQ70x5u8pTeRP9PL2nq8fWdrVmGa0YOOPuAQhfhHcqxeS3DFSUAaypM 1e2JN4EXHvNrETYh1mi+Y5dbML7qdTV3Fzrz2ZT+B0fQMdxn4YXSvK+jN5+Bm5syUikH/5Yl5 d2+S94xGc0TEWfblxFH9cem16nXdtA7c0Yy/EqCzg9rtRcTgX1qzLnadFCE= Sender: linux-spdx-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org On 04.06.19 08:47, Greg KH wrote: > Fixing up "ugly" comments should only be done on the drivers/staging/ > tree, and people working there can do it "by hand" if they really want > to. Don't annoy maintainers of other subsystems with changes like this, > unless you want to be added to their mailbox kill-file. hmm, improving readability is not wanted ? and what about things like fixing formatting, etc ? I've made the experience that some maintainers really welcomed that. (even though that's obviously on a low priority). I'm a bit confused about that ... --mtx -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@metux.net -- +49-151-27565287