Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / arch: x86: Rework the MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS handling

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 17:12 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:31:54PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > We have no proper decision/recommendation about documentation
> > > licensing. That's being worked on.
> > 
> > Ok, I'm ignoring this checkpatch warning from now on.
> 
> Only for Documentation/* files please.

Perhaps
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d0001fd1112d..00c1457fe79b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3058,7 +3058,8 @@ sub process {
 					     "Improper SPDX comment style for '$realfile', please use '$comment' instead\n" . $herecurr);
 				}
 
-				if ($comment !~ /^$/ &&
+				if ($realfile !~ m@^Documentation/@ &&
+				    $comment !~ /^$/ &&
 				    $rawline !~ m@^\+\Q$comment\E SPDX-License-Identifier: @) {
 					WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
 					     "Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line $checklicenseline\n" . $herecurr);