Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: eisa: add SPDX license identifier

[Ilai Levin]

Hi Marc,

Thanks for confirming.

Jon, should I send a v2 adding Marc’s Acked-by, or is this sufficient?

Thanks,
Ilai


On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 at 14:26, Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks for looping me in Jon.
>
> On Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:57:22 +0100,
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Ilai Levin <levinilai972@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > > Add the missing SPDX-License-Identifier tag to the eisa.rst
> > > documentation file.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ilai Levin <levinilai972@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst | 2 ++
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > > index 3563e5f7e..e98b21b60 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > > +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/eisa.rst
> > > @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
> > > +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > > +
> >
> > This is probably just fine, but it's worth asking the original author
> > (copied) whether that was the intent; we can't just slap an arbitrary
> > license onto the work of others.
>
> I'm perfectly happy with GPL-2.0. So FWIW:
>
> Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > (One could also ask whether we need this document at all in 2026, but
> > that is a separate question...:)
>
> I'd be even happier with a bulk removal of anything related to the
> EISA bus. I haven't touched it in about 20 years, the only machine I
> have left (an Alpha Jensen) has been disconnect for that long, and
> support removed from the tree 2.5 years ago...
>
> Thanks,
>
>         M.
>
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