Re: [PATCH v2] staging: mt7621-eth/ethtool.c: Correction of SPDX license identifier

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On 30/01/2019 13:29, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 02:48:27PM +0000, Carlos Henrique Lima Melara wrote:
>> 	This patch fix the checkpatch.p1 warning:
>>
>> 	WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
>> 	+/*
>
> Why did you not fix up the indentation that was already mentioned?

The Warning was about the missing SPDX License Identifier, so I added the 
identifier according to the "license-rules.rst" for C source that is:

>   The SPDX license identifier is added in form of a comment.  The comment
>   style depends on the file type::
>
>      C source:	// SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
>      C header:	/* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
>      ASM:	/* SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression> */
>      scripts:	# SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
>      .rst:	.. SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>
>      .dts{i}:	// SPDX-License-Identifier: <SPDX License Expression>

I think that was the correction needed, right?

Still have a question about the license comment in the "ethtooll.c". 

> /*   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; version 2 of the License
>  *
>  *   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.
>  *
>  *   Copyright (C) 2009-2016 John Crispin <blogic@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  *   Copyright (C) 2009-2016 Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  *   Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Michael Lee <igvtee@xxxxxxxxx>
>  */

It puts 3 spaces between the * and the text, should it be corrected to 
only one space?

thanks, Carlos Melara.
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