[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 01/15] checkpatch: Allow SPDX-License-Identifier

[Peter Xu]

According to: https://spdx.org/ids-how, let's still allow QEMU to use
the SPDX license identifier:

// SPDX-License-Identifier: ***

Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 88682cb0a9..c2aaf421da 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1949,7 +1949,8 @@ sub process {
                }
 
 # no C99 // comments
-               if ($line =~ m{//}) {
+               if ($line =~ m{//} &&
+                   $rawline !~ m{// SPDX-License-Identifier: }) {
                        ERROR("do not use C99 // comments\n" . $herecurr);
                }
                # Remove C99 comments.
-- 
2.17.1