On Fri, Mar 20, 2026 at 10:47:52AM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > On 01/03/2026 15:33, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > Sources already have SPDX-FileCopyrightText (~40 instances) and more > > appear on the mailing list, so document that it is allowed. On the > > other hand SPDX defines several other tags like SPDX-FileType, so add > > checkpatch rule to narrow desired tags only to two of them - license and > > copyright. That way no new tags would sneak in to the kernel unnoticed. > > > > Cc: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]> > > Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <[email protected]> > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <[email protected]> > > --- > > > > Other way would be to remove SPDX-FileCopyrightText from existing files > > and disallow this, but one way or another we should be explicit about > > it. Otherwise people will be sending more of these and each maintainer > > would need to make their own call. > > Hey folks, any further comments here? > > Is there a preference that this tag should be instead removed from the > kernel and checkpatch should not allow it? > > Honestly, I don't care about the way but I do care of having it > defined/codified. > > Best regards, > Krzysztof
Looks sane to me, I'll take in the SPDX tree now, thanks. greg k-h
