[PATCH v11 06/40] arm64/sme: Provide ABI documentation for SME

Shuah Khan skhan at linuxfoundation.org
Thu Feb 10 08:46:00 PST 2022


On 2/10/22 9:18 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 08:12:44AM -0700, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> On 2/8/22 12:00 PM, Mark Brown wrote:
> 
>>> Sure, there are lots of structured files in there like .rst ones which
>>> have SPDX headers but this is just a free format text file so it's not
>>> clear what if any format to use.
> 
>> I think SPDX is applicable to all files free format or not. Are you seeing
>> any build warns during doc build on this?
> 
> No, but I'm not exactly going out of my way to do anything with them.
> As far as I know these files don't get touched during builds, they just
> exist in the kernel tree.  If there is some way of generating warnings
> from them there are quite a lot of other such files already there and
> doing so.  Like I say I can't find any evidence that anyone has looked
> at adding SPDX to these files, as far as I know the long term plan such
> as it is is to convert to other formats and I can't immediately think
> how one would do it otherwise in a way that works well.
> 

If build isn't saying anything, we can move on from SPDX comment. :)

thanks,
-- Shuah



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