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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] SPDX update for 5.2-rc1 - round 1
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Thu, 2019-05-23 at 11:49 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 3:37 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
[]
> > I could also wire up a patch to checkpatch and docs to
> > remove the /* */ requirement for .h files and prefer
> > the generic // form for both .c and .h files as the
> > current minimum tooling versions now all allow //
> > comments
> > .
> 
> We have control for minimal tool versions for building the kernel,
> so I think // will be OK for in-kernel headers.
> 
> 
> On the other hand, I am not quite sure about UAPI headers.
> We cannot define minimum tool versions
> for building user-space.
> Perhaps, using // in UAPI headers causes a problem
> if an ancient compiler is used?

Good point. Thanks.