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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 10:12:45 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:10:19PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.

Any hints as to how to do that?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h