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From: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Jeremy Cline" <jcline@redhat.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Always open files in binary mode
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:14:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181213161423.GB13531@ulmo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <642dd9ea144c03041ad74b14777553fe652acd1a.camel@perches.com>

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On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 06:51:19PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 13:14 -0500, Jeremy Cline wrote:
> > It might be worth noting this fixes commit 6f4d29df66ac
> > ("scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant")
> 
> umm, how does it do that?
> 
> > and also Cc this for
> > stable since 6f4d29df66ac got backported to v4.19. While that commit
> > did indeed make the script work with Python 3 for piping data, it broke
> > Python 2 and made its way to stable.
> 
> I think attempting to use spdxcheck on binary files
> is not useful in the first place.

Agreed. However, if run without arguments the tool will walk the entire
tree and inevitably run into binary files. I realize that this is kind
of a lame way of dealing with binary files, but the alternatives would
be much more complicated and involve dealing with mimetypes and such.

Thierry

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-12 13:12 [PATCH 1/2] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Always open files in binary mode Thierry Reding
2018-12-12 13:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] scripts: Add spdxcheck.py self test Thierry Reding
2018-12-12 18:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] scripts/spdxcheck.py: Always open files in binary mode Jeremy Cline
2018-12-13  2:51   ` Joe Perches
2018-12-13 16:14     ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2018-12-13  7:37   ` Uwe Kleine-König
2018-12-13 15:10     ` Jeremy Cline
2018-12-13 19:40       ` Uwe Kleine-König

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