On Mon, Feb 13, 2023 at 10:30:44AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > It looks odd to me too. Please add SPDX tag in modules which don't have > > it already, instead of commenting code. > > So I'm just a bystander here and should probably be ignored, but ... > > From what I can see, Nick is attempting one of those cross-tree cleanups > that's painful enough to do on its own. This request is asking him to > perform a different, unrelated, and potentially fraught cleanup that the > maintainers of the code in question have not yet managed to get around > to taking care of. This will impede an already prolonged process and, > IMO, unnecessarily so. > > Wouldn't it be better to let this work proceed while making a note > of the files still needing SPDX tags? Please see a note from Nick, who said that these tags were already in-place for most of the files. If it is hard for him, he can skip adding new tags. However, the proposed solution is to comment code and leave dead code is not a right solution. Thanks > > I'll shut up now :) > > Thanks, > > jon
