From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Linux Docs <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Checkpatch False positive
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 13:21:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8cf91e5fb848eecd98a2f9493387906b3a5f1506.camel@intel.com> (raw)
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Checkpatch.pl should probably exclude *.rst files from the SPDX License
Identifier check, since they are documentational files, like *.txt.
Here is the warning message I got on a recent documentation patch I
created.
WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
#28: FILE: Documentation/networking/fm10k.rst:1:
+Linux* Base Driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Multi-host Controller
total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 0 checks, 162 lines checked
NOTE: For some of the reported defects, checkpatch may be able to
mechanically convert to the typical style using --fix or --fix-
inplace.
.apply/v4-Documentation-fm10k-Add-kernel-documentation.patch has style
problems, please review.
NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
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next reply other threads:[~2018-08-20 23:35 UTC|newest]
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2018-08-20 20:21 Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2018-08-20 20:22 ` Checkpatch False positive Matthew Wilcox
2018-08-20 20:32 ` Jeff Kirsher
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