Hi Simon,

On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 11:33:26 EEST Simon Horman wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 01:04:56PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 11:05 AM, Simon Horman <ho...@verge.net.au> wrote:
> >>> --- a/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_regs.h
> >>> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/vsp1/vsp1_regs.h
> >>> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> >>> -/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
> >>> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+ */
> >> 
> >> While you are changing this line, I believe the correct format is
> >> to use a '//' comment.
> >> 
> >> i.e.:
> >> 
> >> // SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+
> > 
> > Not for C header files, only for C source files.
> 
> Wow!

Yes, it's a mess :-( The rationale is that the assembler doesn't support C++-
style comments, so we need to use C-style comments in header files. We should 
really have standardized usage of C-style comments everywhere, it makes no 
sense to me.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart



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