The quilt patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add missing bindings license check has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-missing-bindings-license-check.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add missing bindings license check Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:33:50 +0300 All headers from 'include/dt-bindings/' must be verified by checkpatch together with Documentation bindings, because all of them are part of the whole DT bindings system. The requirement is dual licensed and matching pattern: /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/ The issue was found during patch review: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230313201259.19998-4-ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230320203350.13696-1-ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-missing-bindings-license-check +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3735,8 +3735,9 @@ sub process { WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG", "'$spdx_license' is not supported in LICENSES/...\n" . $herecurr); } - if ($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ && - not $spdx_license =~ /GPL-2\.0.*BSD-2-Clause/) { + if (($realfile =~ m@^Documentation/devicetree/bindings/@ || + $realfile =~ m@^include/dt-bindings/@) && + $spdx_license !~ /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/) { my $msg_level = \&WARN; $msg_level = \&CHK if ($file); if (&{$msg_level}("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are