On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 4:56 AM, Alexandre Belloni
<alexandre.belloni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> + Philippe
>
> On 22/12/2017 at 11:43:33 +0100, Andreas Färber wrote:
>> >> I'll change it for v3 of this patch however it will end up like this:
>> >> //SPDX-License...
>> >
>> > That should be /* SPDX-License */, // is for c files.
>>
>> Got any reference for that? Since we're using the C preprocessor before
>> feeding them to dtc, we can use the same // style for both, builds fine.
>>
>> Only for my private DT overlay files that I use directly with dtc I
>> couldn't adopt that style.
We are well past the point of being able to build most dts files with just dtc.
> The doc states:
>
> If a specific tool cannot handle the standard comment style, then the
> appropriate comment mechanism which the tool accepts shall be used. This
> is the reason for having the "/\* \*/" style comment in C header
> files.
>
> I interpreted that as dtc doesn't handle // comments, use /**/
It's been so long, I'd forgotten that. Perhaps we should fix dtc to
handle // comments.
>
> But I agree it also states:
> .dts{i}: // SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
Or we could still change this. The guidelines aren't merged yet.
Rob
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