Read this section if there are some SPDX warnings above. Pleasing checkpatch is hard when adding new files because:
- checkpatch requests a different SPDX style for .c versus .h files. This is because some .h files are included in linker scripts or assembly code.
- Some SOF reviewers reject C99 comments starting with //
A trick is to keep the SPDX separate, see solution below.
References:
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst#n71
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9f3a89926d6d
Start .h files like this:
/* SPDX-License-Identifier: ... */
/*
* Copyright(c) ...
*
* Author: ...
*/
Start .c files like this:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: ...
/*
* Copyright(c) ...
*
* Author: ...
*/