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On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 01:21:30PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> Checkpatch.pl should probably exclude *.rst files from the SPDX License
> Identifier check, since they are documentational files, like *.txt. 

They're still copyrighted work, so they should still have SPDX tags
to identify their license.

checkpatch has:

                                } elsif ($realfile =~ /\.rst$/) {
                                        $comment = '..';

so we're explicitly including rst files in the checking for now.