linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / arch: x86: Rework the MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF

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Message-ID: <aa5e2a093bf1c2d7ef024348065249bb6e4518b2.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 22 Mar 2019 09:52:03 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
        Linux PM <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        Laura Abbott <labbott@...oraproject.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Simon Schricker <sschricker@...e.de>,
        Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PM / arch: x86: Rework the
 MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS handling

On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 17:12 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2019, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 03:31:54PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > We have no proper decision/recommendation about documentation
> > > licensing. That's being worked on.
> > 
> > Ok, I'm ignoring this checkpatch warning from now on.
> 
> Only for Documentation/* files please.

Perhaps
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d0001fd1112d..00c1457fe79b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3058,7 +3058,8 @@ sub process {
 					     "Improper SPDX comment style for '$realfile', please use '$comment' instead\n" . $herecurr);
 				}
 
-				if ($comment !~ /^$/ &&
+				if ($realfile !~ m@...cumentation/@ &&
+				    $comment !~ /^$/ &&
 				    $rawline !~ m@^\+\Q$comment\E SPDX-License-Identifier: @) {
 					WARN("SPDX_LICENSE_TAG",
 					     "Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line $checklicenseline\n" . $herecurr);