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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] gpu/drm_memory: fix a few warnings
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 2:06 PM Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> wrote:
>
> The opening comment mark "/**" is reserved for kernel-doc comments, so
> it will generate a warning with "make W=1".
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c:2: warning: Cannot understand * \file
> drm_memory.c
>
> Also, silence a checkpatch warning by adding a license identfiter where
> it indicates the MIT license further down in the source file.
>
> WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
>
> It becomes redundant to add both an SPDX identifier and have a
> description of the license in the comment block at the top, so remove
> the later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
> ---
>
> v2: remove the redundant description of the license.
>
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c | 22 ++--------------------
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c
> index 132fef8ff1b6..86a11fc8e954 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_memory.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> -/**
> +// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> +/*
> * \file drm_memory.c
> * Memory management wrappers for DRM
> *
> @@ -12,25 +13,6 @@
> * Copyright 1999 Precision Insight, Inc., Cedar Park, Texas.
> * Copyright 2000 VA Linux Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, California.
> * All Rights Reserved.
> - *
> - * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
> - * copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
> - * to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
> - * the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
> - * and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
> - * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
> - *
> - * The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
> - * paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
> - * Software.
> - *
> - * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
> - * IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
> - * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
> - * VA LINUX SYSTEMS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR

This talks about VA Linux Systems and/or its suppliers, while the MIT
licence talks about authors or copyright holders.

Are such transformations OK to just do?

-ilia

> - * OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
> - * ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
> - * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
> */
>
> #include <linux/highmem.h>
> --
> 1.8.3.1
>

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