Re: + checkpatch-add-missing-bindings-license-check.patch added to mm-nonmm-unstable branch

[Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>]

On 21/03/2023 22:29, Andrew Morton wrote:
> The patch titled
>      Subject: checkpatch: add missing bindings license check
> has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch.  Its filename is
>      checkpatch-add-missing-bindings-license-check.patch
> 
> This patch will shortly appear at
>      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/checkpatch-add-missing-bindings-license-check.patch
> 
> This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at
>     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
> 
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> ------------------------------------------------------
> From: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
> Subject: checkpatch: add missing bindings license check
> Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:33:50 +0300
> 
> All headers from 'include/dt-bindings/' must be verified by checkpatch
> together with Documentation bindings, because all of them are part of the
> whole DT bindings system.
> 
> The requirement is dual licensed and matching pattern:
>     /GPL-2\.0(?:-only|-or-later|\+)? (?:OR|or) BSD-2-Clause/
> 
> The issue was found during patch review:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230313201259.19998-4-ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru/
> 
> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230320203350.13696-1-ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@sberdevices.ru>
> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@linaro.org>
> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Hi Andrew,

Can you drop this patch? Rob raised few concerns and it should be reworked.

Rob's arguments/comments:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230321215337.GA1656483-robh@kernel.org/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_Jsq+-YJsBO+LuPJ=ZQ=eb-monrwzuCppvReH+af7hYZzNaQ@mail.gmail.com/
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAL_JsqJa-McFEorLr6ZWNqaEtjG8Oi2rNJ3hGwb2Xk3jvqMZgQ@mail.gmail.com/

Best regards,
Krzysztof