From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753738AbdLHXfg (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:35:36 -0500 Received: from mail-wr0-f194.google.com ([209.85.128.194]:38336 "EHLO mail-wr0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753245AbdLHXff (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Dec 2017 18:35:35 -0500 X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACJfBosSzQ7li4Gx90PXC63N8DInNs6ueQBOiWZIFD69pm0yxMFXjW3PUaoFZaiOaG1sGKexyi649UvbWF/AHOCAjM8= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: From: Philippe Ombredanne Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 00:34:53 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [git pull] drm fixes for v4.15-rc3 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Airlie , Alex Deucher , LKML , dri-devel Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus, On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 10:16 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Dave Airlie wrote: >> >> This pull is a bit larger than I'd like but a large bunch of it is >> license fixes, AMD wanted to fix the licenses for a bunch of files >> that were missing them, > > Oh Christ, couldn't they have just added the one-liner SPDX tags > rather than doing that crazy "new 22 line boiler plate garbage to > fifteen random Makefiles"? > > I pulled it, but let's try to reign in the crazy "lets add filler > lines" behavior, ok? > > Alex, can you talk to the AMD lawyers and ask them about just putting > the SPDX line instead? > > Linus You made my day! I shall add that every time someone sends a patch with long legalese boilerplate instead of a shorter SDPX tag, there is a kitten that dies somewhere. -- Cordially Philippe Ombredanne, your friendly kernel licensing decraper