[PATCH 1/7] checkpatch: check Makefiles and Kconfigs for SPDX tag

trix at redhat.com trix at redhat.com
Thu Jun 10 14:44:32 PDT 2021


From: Tom Rix <trix at redhat.com>

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 at redhat.com>
---
 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




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