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Date:   Mon, 14 Oct 2019 13:47:42 -0700
From:   John Hubbard <jhubbard@...dia.com>
To:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Documentation/, SPDX tags, and checkpatch.pl

Hi,

When adding a new Documentation/ file, checkpatch.pl is warning me
that the SPDX tag is missing. Should checkpatch.pl skip those kinds
of warnings, seeing as how we probably don't intend on putting the
SPDX tags at the top of the Documentation/*.rst files?

Or are we, after all? I'm just looking to get to a warnings-free situation 
here, one way or the other. :)

The exact warning I'm seeing is:

WARNING: Missing or malformed SPDX-License-Identifier tag in line 1
#25: FILE: Documentation/vm/get_user_pages.rst:1:
+.. _get_user_pages:

-- 
thanks,

John Hubbard
NVIDIA