On Mon, 2018-08-20 at 13:22 -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.
Ah, sorry. I did not catch that they started to include SPDX-License-
Identifiers for RST files, thanks Matthew.
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