Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] nds32: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier

From: Nishad Kamdar
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 10:20:55 EST


On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 08:35:38PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019, Nishad Kamdar wrote:
>
> > This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style
> > in the nds32 Hardware Architecture related files.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar <nishadkamdar@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Actually instead of doing that we should fix the documentation. The
> requirement came from older binutils because they barfed on // style
> comments in ASM files. That's history as we upped the minimal binutil
> requirement.
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx

Ok.

So according to license-rules.rst,
which says

"This has been fixed by now, but there are still older assembler
tools which cannot handle C++ style comments."

Now there are no assembler tools which cannot handle C++ comments ?
and the document should be changed accordingly ?

Thanks for the review.

Regards,
Nishad