checkpatch: allow SPDX-License-Identifier
According to: https://spdx.org/ids-how, let's still allow QEMU to use
the SPDX license identifier:
// SPDX-License-Identifier: ***
CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20190426062705.4651-1-peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 88682cb..c2aaf42 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1949,7 +1949,8 @@
}
# 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.
