Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Move LRC register offsets to a header file

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Quoting Lucas De Marchi (2018-01-23 16:06:16)
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 08:48:01AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
> > Quoting Michel Thierry (2018-01-23 00:41:07)
> > > On 1/22/2018 4:31 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> > > > So for this file what I understand is that it should be:
> > > > 
> > > >       // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> > > >       // Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Intel Corporation
> > > 
> > > So be it.
> > 
> > Oh no, we don't do C++ comments.
> 
> We drm or we kernel devs?
> 
> $ git grep "// SPDX"| wc -l 
> 4487
> 
> The suggestion was actually from Linus in the thread I linked. Quoting
> here:
> 
> > So in general, the _hope_ is that we can just end up replacing
> > existing boilerplate comments with that single line SPDX comment
> > (using "//" in *.[ch] files, but obviously some other kinds of files
> > end up having a different comment character, typically '#').
> ...
> > And yes, feel free to replace block comments with // while at it.
> ...
> > We already have something like 700 different versions of the same
> > silly copyright license boiler-plate due to typos, whitespace
> > differences, comment style choices, yadda yadda. Let's avoid that mess
> > by just picking _one_ single format and placement for the SPDX line.
> 
> Which I agree with, hence my suggestion. Let me know if it should be
> different in drm/

Being consistent is far more important.
Documentation/process/coding-style.rst is what we follow, breaking the
rule and being inconsistent for copyright headers doesn't make any sense.
-Chris
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