Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933492AbaAFXQa (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:16:30 -0500 Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:14453 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933197AbaAFXQ0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jan 2014 18:16:26 -0500 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.95,615,1384329600"; d="scan'208";a="434756185" Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Only flag FSF address, not gnu.org URL To: joe@perches.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, josh@joshtriplett.org From: Alexander Duyck Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:16:24 -0800 Message-ID: <20140106231534.23578.11475.stgit@ahduyck-cp2.jf.intel.com> User-Agent: StGit/0.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the references to the gnu.org/licenses URL which appear in numerous drivers. So for example this statement will still return an error: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. However, this statement will not return an error after this patch: You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 9c98100..ba3c9c3 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1963,8 +1963,7 @@ sub process { } # Check for FSF mailing addresses. - if ($rawline =~ /You should have received a copy/ || - $rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ || + if ($rawline =~ /write to the Free Software/ || $rawline =~ /59 Temple Place/ || $rawline =~ /51 Franklin Street/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/