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[1/7] checkpatch: check Makefiles and Kconfigs for SPDX tag

Message ID 20210610214438.3161140-3-trix@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series check Makefile and Kconfigs for SPDX tag | expand

Commit Message

Tom Rix June 10, 2021, 9:44 p.m. UTC 
From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

Both Makefiles and Kconfigs should carry an SPDX tag.
Something like
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only

Add a matcher to existing check

Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Joe Perches June 10, 2021, 10:15 p.m. UTC | #1 
On Thu, 2021-06-10 at 14:44 -0700, trix@redhat.com wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
> 
> Both Makefiles and Kconfigs should carry an SPDX tag.
> Something like
>  # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> 
> Add a matcher to existing check
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>

Seems fine, thanks.

There's a Makefile with two tags that could be updated too.
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 drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Makefile | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Makefile b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Makefile
index 51498b2e85b8f..cee03e31f420d 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ DEFINES += -DDEBUG
 
 atomisp = $(srctree)/drivers/staging/media/atomisp/
 
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
 atomisp-objs += \
 	pci/atomisp_acc.o \
 	pci/atomisp_cmd.o \
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index dad87c3686326..7fca3a7c38791 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3572,7 +3572,7 @@  sub process {
 					$comment = '/*';
 				} elsif ($realfile =~ /\.(c|dts|dtsi)$/) {
 					$comment = '//';
-				} elsif (($checklicenseline == 2) || $realfile =~ /\.(sh|pl|py|awk|tc|yaml)$/) {
+				} elsif (($checklicenseline == 2) || $realfile =~ /\.(sh|pl|py|awk|tc|yaml)$|Kconfig|Makefile/) {
 					$comment = '#';
 				} elsif ($realfile =~ /\.rst$/) {
 					$comment = '..';