From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752102AbdKICKY (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:10:24 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0020.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.20]:60587 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751241AbdKICKX (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Nov 2017 21:10:23 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1537:1566:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4321:5007:7901:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12740:12760:12895:13069:13161:13229:13311:13357:13439:14659:14721:21080:21627,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: bone73_3d49efe380232 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1092 Message-ID: <1510193419.15768.37.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check From: Joe Perches To: Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andy Whitcroft , Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:10:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20171109011047.20040-1-robh@kernel.org> References: <20171109011047.20040-1-robh@kernel.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 19:10 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > Add a check warning if SPDX-License-Identifier tags are not used in > newly added files. If this is to be done, and I think it's not a great idea, there are better ways of doing this that emit this warning on a per-file basis instead of a per-patch.