Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add missing bindings license check

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2023-03-20 at 13:00 +0300, Dmitry Rokosov wrote:
> All headers from 'include/dt-bindings/' must be verified by checkpatch
> together with Documentation bindings, because all of them are part of
> the whole DT bindings system.
> 
> The requirement is dual licensed and matching pattern:
>     /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/
> 
> The issue was found during patch review:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230313201259.19998-4-ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes v2 since v1 at [1]:
>     - include/dt-bindings check is aligned to open parens
>     - introduce more strict pattern for bindings license:
>       /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/
> 
> Links:
>     [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230317201621.15518-1-ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

OK but:

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3709,8 +3709,9 @@ sub process {
>  						WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
>  						     "'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
>  					}
> -					if ($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ &&
> -					    not $spdx_license =~ /GPL-2\.0.*BSD-2-Clause/) {
> +					if (($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ ||
> +					     $realfile =~ m@^include/dt-bindings/@) &&
> +					    not $spdx_license =~ /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/) {

I believe this is the only checkpatch use of
	not <foo> =~ <bar>
instead of
	<foo> !~ <bar>

I prefer !~