On Mon, 2019-10-14 at 13:47 -0700, John Hubbard wrote: > Hi, > > When adding a new Documentation/ file, checkpatch.pl is warning me > that the SPDX tag is missing. Should checkpatch.pl skip those kinds > of warnings, seeing as how we probably don't intend on putting the > SPDX tags at the top of the Documentation/*.rst files? > > Or are we, after all? I'm just looking to get to a warnings-free situation > here, one way or the other. :) > > The exact warning I'm seeing is: > > WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1 > #25: FILE: Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst:1: > +.. _get_user_pages: > Looks like ~18% of the .rst files already have SPDX markers $ git ls-files -- '*.rst' | wc -l 2125 $ git grep -n "SPDX-License-Identifier:" -- '*.rst'| grep ':1:' | wc -l 378 Likely all .rst files will have these markers eventually.
