Hi Connie,
On 6/17/25 5:45 PM, Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17 2025, Cornelia Huck <coh...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> diff --git a/scripts/arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk
>> b/scripts/arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk
>> new file mode 100755
>> index 000000000000..f92bbbafa727
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/scripts/arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk
>> @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
>> +#!/bin/awk -f
>> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
>> +# arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk: arm64 sysreg header include generator
>> +#
>> +# Usage: awk -f arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk
>> $LINUX_PATH/arch/arm64/tools/sysreg
>> +
>> +BEGIN {
>> + print "/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */"
> FWIW, checkpatch.pl chokes on this:
>
> ^* matches null string many times in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^* <--
> HERE /"$/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 1389.
> ERROR: Saw unacceptable licenses '*/"', valid choices for QEMU are:
> GPL-2.0-or-later
> GPL-2.0-only
> LGPL-2.1-only
> LGPL-2.1-or-later
> BSD-2-Clause
> BSD-3-Clause
> MIT
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 76 lines checked
so don't we need to improve checkpatch.pl to silence this error?
Cheers
Eric
>
>
>> + print "/* GENERATED FILE, DO NOT EDIT */"
>> + print "/* use arm-gen-cpu-sysregs-header.awk to regenerate */"
>> +} END {
>> + print ""
>> +}
>> +
