The directory name for other licenses was changed to "deprecated" in
commit 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated"). But it was
not changed for spdxcheck.py. As result, checkpatch failed with
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/dist-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 298, in
__getitem__
return self.join(item)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/git/objects/tree.py", line 244, in
join
raise KeyError(msg % file)
KeyError: "Blob or Tree named 'other' not found"
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <h...@lst.de>
Fixes: 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <s...@narfation.org>
---
scripts/spdxcheck.py | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
index 4fe392e507fb..1a39b34588b7 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ class SPDXdata(object):
def read_spdxdata(repo):
# The subdirectories of LICENSES in the kernel source
- license_dirs = [ "preferred", "other", "exceptions" ]
+ license_dirs = [ "preferred", "deprecated", "exceptions" ]
lictree = repo.head.commit.tree['LICENSES']
spdx = SPDXdata()
--
2.20.1
