Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / arch: x86: Rework the MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS handling | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:52:03 -0700 |
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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);
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