linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python scripts

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Date:   Fri, 06 Sep 2019 10:33:42 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@...a.pv.it>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: license-rules.txt: cover SPDX headers on Python
 scripts

On Fri, 2019-09-06 at 08:34 -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> I did some changes on it, plus one change at the pedantic mode of
> scripts/spdxcheck.py, and placed the corresponding patches at:
> 
> 	https://git.linuxtv.org/mchehab/experimental.git/log/?h=spdx_pedantic

Your script needs a modification of this line:

    $spdx = $1 if m/(SPDX-License-Identifier:.*)/;

This is on $_ and not $spdx.

This line needs to be:

    $spdx = $1 if $spdx =~ m/(SPDX-License-Identifier:.*)/;

Otherwise the script produces:
---
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/rlimit.h b/tools/perf/util/rlimit.h
index 9f59d8e..5d975b9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/rlimit.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/rlimit.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 */ */
 #ifndef __PERF_RLIMIT_H_
 #define __PERF_RLIMIT_H_
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1 */
 
 void rlimit__bump_memlock(void);
 #endif // __PERF_RLIMIT_H_