Re: Fwd: scripts/spdxcheck.py's third-party dependencies

On Thu, 5 Aug 2021, Greg KH wrote:

> But we do not use pip to do kernel builds, so what is this going to help
> with?

It's just about making people's lives easier for running the spdxcheck.py 
script - not everyone will have the third-party libraries installed, so 
listing them means they can be installed easily. For example:

diff --git a/scripts/README.spdxcheck b/scripts/README.spdxcheck
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..80bb6308e5c5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/README.spdxcheck
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+The script spdxcheck.py requires installation of some third party
+libraries. These are listed in ``requirements-spdxcheck.txt`` and can
+be installed with
+
+``pip install -r requirements-spdxcheck.txt``
+
diff --git a/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt b/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9a4633040897
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/requirements-spdxcheck.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ply
+GitPython
+

I'll reformat as a proper patch with any changes if this is useful.

Best,

Nicky