The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: improve SPDX license checking
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: improve SPDX license checking
Use perl's m@<match>@ match and not /<match>/ comparisons to avoid
an error using c90's // comment style.
Miscellanea:
o Use normal tab indentation and alignment
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5e4a8fa7901148fbcd77ab391e6dd0e6bf95777f.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f08eb62458407a145cfedf959d1091af151cd665.1563575364.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 +++++++++---------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3071,21 +3071,21 @@ sub process {
# check SPDX comment style for .[chsS] files
if ($realfile =~ /\.[chsS]$/ &&
$rawline =~ /SPDX-License-Identifier:/ &&
- $rawline !~ /^\+\s*\Q$comment\E\s*/) {
+ $rawline !~ m@^\+\s*\Q$comment\E\s*@) {
WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
"Improper SPDX comment style for '$realfile', please use '$comment' instead\n" . $herecurr);
}
if ($comment !~ /^$/ &&
- $rawline !~ /^\+\Q$comment\E SPDX-License-Identifier: /) {
- WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
- "Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line $checklicenseline\n" . $herecurr);
+ $rawline !~ m@^\+\Q$comment\E SPDX-License-Identifier: @) {
+ WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
+ "Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line $checklicenseline\n" . $herecurr);
} elsif ($rawline =~ /(SPDX-License-Identifier: .*)/) {
- my $spdx_license = $1;
- if (!is_SPDX_License_valid($spdx_license)) {
- WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
- "'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
- }
+ my $spdx_license = $1;
+ if (!is_SPDX_License_valid($spdx_license)) {
+ WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
+ "'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
}
}
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
string-add-stracpy-and-stracpy_pad-mechanisms.patch
kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api.patch
checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch
checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch
