From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> Both Makefiles and Kconfigs should carry an SPDX tag. Something like # SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only Add a matcher to existing check Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index dad87c3686326..7fca3a7c38791 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3572,7 +3572,7 @@ sub process { $comment = '/*'; } elsif ($realfile =~ /\.(c|dts|dtsi)$/) { $comment = '//'; - } elsif (($checklicenseline == 2) || $realfile =~ /\.(sh|pl|py|awk|tc|yaml)$/) { + } elsif (($checklicenseline == 2) || $realfile =~ /\.(sh|pl|py|awk|tc|yaml)$|Kconfig|Makefile/) { $comment = '#'; } elsif ($realfile =~ /\.rst$/) { $comment = '..'; -- 2.26.3