Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) I just want to be sure.
So in general, the _hope_ is that we can just end up replacing existing boilerplate comments with that single line SPDX comment
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 '#'). The real reason _I_ personally would like to see at least all the new SPDX lines to go at the very top of the file is that every time when we have some kind of ambiguity about placement, we end up with multiple cases, and then people don't notice when merging, and you end up having two - or you just end up having unnecessary merge conflicts because two different people picked two different choices).