linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for SPDX-License-Identifier on wrong line #

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Date:   Mon, 11 Feb 2019 04:49:38 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@...ux.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for SPDX-License-Identifier on
 wrong line #

On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 13:41 +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
wrote:
> On 08.02.19 21:44, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Warn when any SPDX-License-Identifier: tag is not created
> > on the proper line number.
> 
> By the way: there are corner cases, which can't have it at the first
> line, eg. scripts.

Which I believe the patch and script handles.

Please provide a sample if the script does not
operate properly.