On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Greg KH wrote:
But we do not use pip to do kernel builds, so what is this going to help with?
It's just about making people's lives easier for running the spdxcheck.py script - not everyone will have the third-party libraries installed, so listing them means they can be installed easily. For example:
diff --git a/scripts/README.spdxcheck b/scripts/README.spdxcheck new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..80bb6308e5c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/README.spdxcheck @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +The script spdxcheck.py requires installation of some third party +libraries. These are listed in ``requirements-spdxcheck.txt`` and can +be installed with + +``pip install -r requirements-spdxcheck.txt`` + diff --git a/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt b/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..9a4633040897 --- /dev/null +++ b/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +ply +GitPython + I'll reformat as a proper patch with any changes if this is useful. Best, Nicky
