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[v2,01/15] checkpatch: Allow SPDX-License-Identifier

Message ID 20190520030839.6795-2-peterx@redhat.com
State New
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Series kvm/migration: support KVM_CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG | expand

Commit Message

Peter Xu May 20, 2019, 3:08 a.m. UTC 
According to: https://spdx.org/ids-how, let's still allow QEMU to use
the SPDX license identifier:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: ***

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
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 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 88682cb0a9..c2aaf421da 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1949,7 +1949,8 @@  sub process {
 		}
 
 # no C99 // comments
-		if ($line =~ m{//}) {
+		if ($line =~ m{//} &&
+		    $rawline !~ m{// SPDX-License-Identifier: }) {
 			ERROR("do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 		# Remove C99 comments.