Hi Philippe, On 10 February 2018 at 13:06, Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear Manivannan, > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 3:41 AM, Manivannan Sadhasivam > <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Add Actions Semi S900 clock bindings. >> >> Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> > > <snip> > >> diff --git a/include/dt-bindings/clock/actions,s900-cmu.h b/include/dt-bindings/clock/actions,s900-cmu.h >> new file mode 100644 >> index 000000000000..2fa94e19922b >> --- /dev/null >> +++ b/include/dt-bindings/clock/actions,s900-cmu.h >> @@ -0,0 +1,139 @@ >> +/* >> + * Device Tree binding constants for Actions S900 Clock Management Unit >> + * >> + * Copyright (c) 2014 Actions Semi Inc. >> + * Copyright (c) 2017 Linaro Ltd. >> + * >> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify >> + * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by >> + * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or >> + * (at your option) any later version. >> + * >> + * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, >> + * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of >> + * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the >> + * GNU General Public License for more details. >> + */ > > Would you consider using the new SPDX license ids rather that this > time-tested but rather boring legalese? > Very sorry! I converted all the driver code to SPDX license tag but since this file was already Acked, I forgot to do so. Will clean it up. > The (still new and fresh) license documentation contributed by tglx > --the only maintainer that I know that understands both the innards of > Spectre and Meltdown and the beauty of reStructuredText -- is in: > Documentation/process/license-rules.rst > > Practically this means replacing the above by a simple single line and > getting rid of a whopping 8 comment lines! > > SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ > > You get to save a few tree as a bonus if you also do the same for all > Linaro-copyrighted files. Yes this is saving trees because I will use > less paper each time I print a listing of the kernel source code. > Which is something that I rarely if ever do: but somebody must do it > somewhere for sure. > This is something I will consider doing it in a separate patchset. > If I do the math: we have ~60K files in the kernel, and say we can > remove roughly 5 lines of legalese per file on average. Each printed > source code page is roughly 60 lines : this will mean a saving of > about 6000 paper sheets saved on each printout! A letter-size paper > ream is 500 pages, about 2.5 Kg and costs about ~$8. You can extract > about 10K to 20k sheets of paper per tree [1]. > Therefore my Fermi estimate is that using shorter legalese in the > kernel will eventually save roughly ONE FULL smaller tree (6K pages) > each time someone prints the kernel code: incredible, right? > > Thank you for helping make the kernel a mostly legalese-free codebase > and saving trees at the same time! > Thanks for the finding! Regards, Mani > [1] https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2014-4-july-august/green-life/how-much-paper-does-one-tree-produce > -- > Cordially > Philippe Ombredanne -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
