linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

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Message-ID: <1510193419.15768.37.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 08 Nov 2017 18:10:19 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add SPDX license tag check

On Wed, 2017-11-08 at 19:10 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> Add a check warning if SPDX-License-Identifier tags are not used in
> newly added files.

If this is to be done, and I think it's not a great idea,
there are better ways of doing this that emit this warning
on a per-file basis instead of a per-patch.