On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Almost all source files in the kernel use a standardized SPDX header
> at line 1 with a comment /* initiator and terminator */:
>
> /* SPDX-License-Identifier: <license> */
>
> $ git grep -PHn '^/\* SPDX-License-Identifier:.*\*/\s*$' | \
> wc -l
> 17847
That grep pattern makes zero sense.
Why would */ be special at all? It isn't.
$ git grep SPDX-License-Identifier: | wc -l
52418
and a *LOT* of those are shell scripts and use "#", or are C sources
and use "//" etc.
So your "standardization" is completely pointless. Anybody who expects
that pattern just doing something fundamentally wrong, because the
pattern you want to standardize around is simply not valid.
Linus
