On Mon, 2020-04-27 at 12:40 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 11:59 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > There's no real reason not to prefer the latest versions > > over the deprecated ones. > > Joe, your pedantic approach is really hard to work with. Please work on it. License text especially _should_ be pedantic and precise. > The fact is, there *is * a reason to avoid the pedantic "change to new > version" - pointless churn. Have you *looked* at this proposed change? It just changes // SPDX comments to /* */ in .h files. It's generically useless churn as using the // style in .h files was only for old and now unsupported compiler versions. > We have a lot of the original style spdx markers, because those are > what we started with. And changing them is pointless. You and I (and apparently the SPDX group too as they deprecated it) disagree a bit here. > I know you love your scripts to change things around, but to everybody > else it tends to be just extra work and noise. Piecemeal changes aren't great. Scripted changes can be very useful and I believe they are significantly underutilized in this source tree. cheers, Joe
