On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 17:12 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:31:54PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > We have no proper decision/recommendation about documentation
> > > licensing. That's being worked on.
> >
> > Ok, I'm ignoring this checkpatch warning from now on.
>
> Only for Documentation/* files please.
Perhaps
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d0001fd1112d..00c1457fe79b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3058,7 +3058,8 @@ sub process {
"Improper SPDX comment style for
'$realfile', please use '$comment' instead\n" . $herecurr);
}
- if ($comment !~ /^$/ &&
+ if ($realfile !~ m@^Documentation/@ &&
+ $comment !~ /^$/ &&
$rawline !~ m@^\+\Q$comment\E
SPDX-License-Identifier: @) {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"Missing or malformed
SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line $checklicenseline\n" . $herecurr);
