RE: spdxcheck.py complains about the second OR?

"Zavras, Alexios" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-spdx,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <CY4PR1101MB2360AB7647D9E2FA15044EE4897E0@CY4PR1101MB2360.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
This is not correct.
Since the grammar includes the production "expr: expr OR expr",
there is absolutely no need to add a rule with more than two operands --
it will be handled recursively.

-- zvr

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joe Perches
Sent: Monday, 4 November, 2019 23:24
To: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>; Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: spdxcheck.py complains about the second OR?

On Mon, 2019-11-04 at 23:11 +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Nov 2019, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > scripts/spdxcheck.py warns the following two files.
> > 
> > $ ./scripts/spdxcheck.py
> > drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_if.h: 1:52 Syntax error: 
> > OR
> > drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_regs.h: 1:52 Syntax error: 
> > OR
> > 
> > I do not understand what is wrong with them.
> > 
> > I think "A OR B OR C" is sane.
> 
> Yes it is, but obviously we did not expect files with 3 possible 
> alternative licenses.

Perhaps just this, but the generic logic obviously isn't complete.
---
 scripts/spdxcheck.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/spdxcheck.py b/scripts/spdxcheck.py index 6374e0..00be34 100755
--- a/scripts/spdxcheck.py
+++ b/scripts/spdxcheck.py
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ class id_parser(object):
                 | ID WITH EXC
                 | expr AND expr
                 | expr OR expr
+                | expr OR expr OR expr
                 | LPAR expr RPAR'''
         pass
 


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