On Sun, 2020-10-11 at 11:42 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:13 PM Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> 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.
It's just a trivial grep pattern to determine if the c90 style SPDX-License-Identifier is in an individual single line comment. Almost all are.
