Checkpatch.pl FAIL: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"

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On Sun, 12 May 2019 11:45:24 +0530, Deepak Mishra said:

> When I run checkpatch.pl, for every file I get the follwong or similar
> error. Could you please help if this is my environment issue or actually
> error in code which I need to fix ?
>
> I executed the following in command prompt.
> perl scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/rtl8712/* |less
>
> The error I observe
> drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_rf.h

Found the problem, patch submitted.  It's a one-line fix:

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']