On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 01:21:30PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > Checkpatch.pl should probably exclude *.rst files from the SPDX License > Identifier check, since they are documentational files, like *.txt. They're still copyrighted work, so they should still have SPDX tags to identify their license. checkpatch has: } elsif ($realfile =~ /\.rst$/) { $comment = '..'; so we're explicitly including rst files in the checking for now.