[Intel-gfx] [PATCH v2] drm/i915: Move LRC register offsets to a header file

[Michal Wajdeczko]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:06:16 +0100, Lucas De Marchi  
<lucas.demarchi at intel.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 08:48:01AM +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Quoting Michel Thierry (2018-01-23 00:41:07)
>> > On 1/22/2018 4:31 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>> > > So for this file what I understand is that it should be:
>> > >
>> > >       // SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
>> > >       // Copyright (C) 2014-2018 Intel Corporation
>> >
>> > So be it.
>>
>> Oh no, we don't do C++ comments.
>
> We drm or we kernel devs?
>
> $ git grep "// SPDX"| wc -l
> 4487
>

But on the other hand:

$ git grep "/* SPDX" | wc -l
14087

> The suggestion was actually from Linus in the thread I linked. Quoting
> here:
>
>> So in general, the _hope_ is that we can just end up replacing
>> existing boilerplate comments with that single line SPDX comment
>> (using "//" in *.[ch] files, but obviously some other kinds of files
>> end up having a different comment character, typically '#').
> ...
>> And yes, feel free to replace block comments with // while at it.
> ...
>> We already have something like 700 different versions of the same
>> silly copyright license boiler-plate due to typos, whitespace
>> differences, comment style choices, yadda yadda. Let's avoid that mess
>> by just picking _one_ single format and placement for the SPDX line.
>
> Which I agree with, hence my suggestion. Let me know if it should be
> different in drm/
>
>
> Lucas De Marchi
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