From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> checkpatch now checks that new files have an SPDX line. If you use the shell rune in tracing.rst to create a trace.h wrapper header, this triggers checkpatch to complain.
Although these files are tiny, it's worth having the SPDX line to avoid having to add extra exception cases to checkpatch. Update the rune to include creating an SPDX line. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <m...@tls.msk.ru> --- docs/devel/tracing.rst | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/devel/tracing.rst b/docs/devel/tracing.rst index 043bed7fd0..f4557ee20e 100644 --- a/docs/devel/tracing.rst +++ b/docs/devel/tracing.rst @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The "io/trace.h" file must be created manually with an #include of the corresponding "trace/trace-<subdir>.h" file that will be generated in the builddir:: - $ echo '#include "trace/trace-io.h"' >io/trace.h + $ (echo '/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later */' ; echo '#include "trace/trace-io.h"') >io/trace.h While it is possible to include a trace.h file from outside a source file's own sub-directory, this is discouraged in general. It is strongly preferred that -- 2.47.2
