[OpenOCD-devel] [PATCH]: 9714059 COVER LETTER: [RFC] update checkpatch

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commit 971405990b35734f8bc474bb3e5d9f668fdf7dfb
Author: Antonio Borneo <bor...@gm...>
Date:   Tue Apr 16 22:42:26 2019 +0200

    COVER LETTER: [RFC] update checkpatch
    
    --- EMPTY COMMIT --- DO NOT MERGE --- TO BE ABANDONED ---
    
    The checkpatch script included in OpenOCD source code has been
    taken from Linux kernel commit e060c38434b2, a merge commit on
    2011 Sep 15, somehow between v3.1-rc6 and v3.1.
    
    Updating the script with a more recent one implies to update the
    OpenOCD code in order to silent the "new" complains of the script.
    
    So far, the most intrusive complain I have identified is the new
    licensing scheme used in Linux kernel (and already adopted in
    U-Boot and many other SW packages) based on SPDX [1] [2].
    For the moment I have silent it in .checkpatch.conf, but we have
    lost the check on the old GPL header!
    
    This patch series is marked as [RFC] because I would like to get
    feedback before starting the boring process of replacing all the
    GPL headers with the SPDX line (my plan is to use scripts as much
    as possible).
    
    I see some value in using the new checkpatch to get access to all
    the fixes that has been merged in the last 7+ years, but we risk
    to get also all the new specific kernel hooks that do not apply to
    OpenOCD.
    If you have time, give it a try.
    But if instead you think the new checkpatch brings more issues
    than benefits, then let's drop this change set!
    
    On my side I will try to enable the extra flag "--strict". Today
    it complains too much!
    
    [1] https://spdx.org/
    [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst
    
    Change-Id: I15bf438d4d61d7430217c30ce5e1e4479a725b9b
    Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <bor...@gm...>

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