Re: [PATCH 0/6] Address issues with SPDX requirements and PEP-263

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Fri Sep 06 2019 - 08:02:43 EST


Em Thu, 05 Sep 2019 13:05:08 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 16:57 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > The description at Documentation/process/license-rules.rst is very strict
> > with regards to the position where the SPDX tags should be.
> []
> > PS.: I sent already a RFC version for those patches along with this
> > thread:
> >
> > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b32c2e46b91e7bcda2a9bd140673f06d71b2487a.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Nice, thanks.
>
> Now I guess I have to update checkpatch too.
> (unless you want to... ;)

Yeah, it makes sense to update checkpatch too. Perhaps it could be
changed to use the "-s" flag on the check, instead of implementing
its own logic to handle the position.

Thanks,
Mauro