[PATCH] scripts/spdxcheck.py - fix list of directories to check

Valdis Klētnieks valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu
Sun May 12 03:40:28 EDT 2019


After this commit:

commit 62be257e986dab439537b3e1c19ef746a13e1860
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Date:   Tue Apr 30 06:51:30 2019 -0400

    LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated

checkpatch throws an error:

[/usr/src/linux-next]2 scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_rf.h
FAIL: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 240, in <module>
    spdx = read_spdxdata(repo)
  File "scripts/spdxcheck.py", line 41, in read_spdxdata
    for el in lictree[d].traverse():
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 298, in __getitem__
    return self.join(item)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 244, in join
    raise KeyError(msg % file)
KeyError: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"

Fix directory search list. Pick up the new LICENSES/dual while we're there...

Reported-by: Deepak Mishra <linux.dkm at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>

diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
index 4fe392e507fb..7abd5f5cb14d 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import os
 def read_spdxdata(repo):
 
     # The subdirectories of LICENSES in the kernel source
-    license_dirs = [ "preferred", "other", "exceptions" ]
+    license_dirs = [ "preferred", "dual", "deprecated", "exceptions" ]
     lictree = repo.head.commit.tree['LICENSES']
 
     spdx = SPDXdata()





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