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"
Fixes: 62be257e986d ("LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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()