[PATCH 0/2] scripts/spelling.txt: add GPL-2.0+

Heinrich Schuchardt heinrich.schuchardt at canonical.com
Mon Dec 16 17:59:22 CET 2024


On 16.12.24 16:38, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2024 at 03:55:35AM +0100, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>> On 12/15/24 03:37, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote:
>>> The correct SPDX identifier for the 'GNU General Public License v2.0 or
>>> later' is GPL-2.0-or-later.
>>>
>>> Checkpatch.pl uses the misspelled words from spelling.txt both as keys of a
>>> hash and as part of a regular expression. For usage in the regular
>>> expression special characters like the plus sign need to be escaped.
>>>
>>> Heinrich Schuchardt (2):
>>>     scripts/checkpatch.pl: allow special characters in spelling.txt
>>>     scripts/spelling.txt: add GPL-2.0+
>>>
>>>    scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>>>    scripts/spelling.txt  | 1 +
>>>    2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>
>>
>> I sent similar patches send to the Linux kernel list:
>>
>> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241215025104.70096-1-heinrich.schuchardt@canonical.com/T/#t
> 
> Thanks for trying this upstream. As they seem uninterested, adding this
> to the existing function of "sub u_boot_line" in our checkpatch.pl is
> fine as an alternative.
> 

u_boot_line() is not called for *.rst files.

Best regards

Heinrich


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