The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-scripts-spdxcheckpy-now-requires-python3.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-scripts-spdxcheckpy-now-requires-python3.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-scripts-spdxcheckpy-now-requires-python3.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3 Since commit d0259c42abff ("spdxcheck.py: Use Python 3"), spdxcheck.py explicitly expects to run as python3 script. If "python" still points to python v2.7 and the script is executed with "python scripts/spdxcheck.py", the following error may be seen even if git-python is installed for python3. Traceback (most recent call last): File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 10, in <module> import git ImportError: No module named git To fix the problem, check for the existence of python3, check if the script is executable and not just for its existence, and execute it directly. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210505211720.447111-1-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bert Vermeulen <bert@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bert Vermeulen <bert@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-scripts-spdxcheckpy-now-requires-python3 +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1084,10 +1084,10 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete { sub is_SPDX_License_valid { my ($license) = @_; - return 1 if (!$tree || which("python") eq "" || !(-e "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py") || !(-e "$gitroot")); + return 1 if (!$tree || which("python3") eq "" || !(-x "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py") || !(-e "$gitroot")); my $root_path = abs_path($root); - my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" | python scripts/spdxcheck.py -`; + my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" | scripts/spdxcheck.py -`; return 0 if ($status ne ""); return 1; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-scripts-spdxcheckpy-now-requires-python3.patch