Re: [GIT PULL] SPDX update for 5.2-rc3 - round 2

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sun Jun 02 2019 - 11:08:02 EST


On Sun, 2019-06-02 at 08:39 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> The second patch fixes up a number of places in the tree where people
> mistyped the string "SPDX-License-Identifier". Given that people can
> not even type their own name all the time without mistakes, this was
> bound to happen, and odds are, we will have to add some type of check
> for this to checkpatch.pl to catch this happening in the future.
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> arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c | 2 +-
> drivers/crypto/ux500/cryp/Makefile | 2 +-
> drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c | 2 +-
> drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77980.c | 2 +-
> lib/test_stackinit.c | 2 +-
> sound/soc/codecs/max9759.c | 2 +-
> 6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

checkpatch already gives a warning for each of these files
except the Makefile as it has no filename extension.
Filenames without extensions are not checked.

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --types=SPDX_LICENSE_TAG --nosummary --terse \
arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c \
drivers/crypto/ux500/cryp/Makefile \
drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c \
drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77980.c \
lib/test_stackinit.c \
sound/soc/codecs/max9759.c
arch/arm/kernel/bugs.c:1: WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
drivers/phy/st/phy-stm32-usbphyc.c:1: WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
drivers/pinctrl/sh-pfc/pfc-r8a77980.c:1: WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
lib/test_stackinit.c:1: WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
sound/soc/codecs/max9759.c:1: WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1