From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751124AbdKKO0s (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:26:48 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0199.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.199]:33234 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750746AbdKKO0r (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Nov 2017 09:26:47 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2198:2199:2393:2551:2553:2559:2562:2828:2910:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3872:3874:4321:5007:6117:6691:7901:10004:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12050:12740:12760:12895:13069:13311:13357:13439:14659:14721:21080:21627:30045:30054:30070:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:1,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: club32_3afb01b998e23 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1667 Message-ID: <1510410404.10883.8.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check From: Joe Perches To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Rob Herring , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2017 06:26:44 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20171111142241.GA10012@kroah.com> References: <20171110201909.6144-1-robh@kernel.org> <1510408392.10883.5.camel@perches.com> <20171111142241.GA10012@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.26.1-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2017-11-11 at 15:22 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 05:53:12AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 14:19 -0600, Rob Herring wrote: > > > SPDX license tags are a thing now in the kernel[1]. It has also been > > > decided to make them the first line in files. As Linus put it: > > > > Yes, SPDX tags are used in about a quarter of the files > > in the kernel. > > > > Again, where is this shown to be desired that this goes > > into _every_ file? > > The documentation that states this should be published this weekend, or > on Monday, depending on people's travel schedules, please give it a > chance... > > thanks, checkpatch should not take the lead in setting licensing policy. So unless and until the documentation patch is accepted: nak.