linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Use python3 by default with spdxcheck.py

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Message-Id: <20210328204110.12776-1-ismael@iodev.co.uk>
Date:   Sun, 28 Mar 2021 22:41:11 +0200
From:   Ismael Luceno <ismael@...ev.co.uk>
To:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ismael Luceno <ismael@...ev.co.uk>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Use python3 by default with spdxcheck.py

Allow to override this via the PYTHON environment variable.

Some systems still provide Python 2.x under the python name for
compatibility reasons; plus the spdxcheck.py script already specifies
python3 as it's interpreter.

Signed-off-by: Ismael Luceno <ismael@...ev.co.uk>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index df8b23dc1eb0..3f7516e262b3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ my $allow_c99_comments = 1; # Can be overridden by --ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANC
 my $git_command ='export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; git';
 my $tabsize = 8;
 my ${CONFIG_} = "CONFIG_";
+my $python = $ENV{'PYTHON'} || 'python3';
 
 sub help {
 	my ($exitcode) = @_;
@@ -1000,10 +1001,10 @@ sub is_maintained_obsolete {
 sub is_SPDX_License_valid {
 	my ($license) = @_;
 
-	return 1 if (!$tree || which("python") eq "" || !(-e "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py") || !(-e "$gitroot"));
+	return 1 if (!$tree || which($python) eq "" || !(-e "$root/scripts/spdxcheck.py") || !(-e "$gitroot"));
 
 	my $root_path = abs_path($root);
-	my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" | python scripts/spdxcheck.py -`;
+	my $status = `cd "$root_path"; echo "$license" | "$python" scripts/spdxcheck.py -`;
 	return 0 if ($status ne "");
 	return 1;
 }
-- 
2.31.0