diff --git a/.checkpatch.conf b/.checkpatch.conf
index a19adfd2ea875bede3257bd792f97f2c868127f5..fc749538116d74f967a18e228e8332dc858ad33a 100644
--- a/.checkpatch.conf
+++ b/.checkpatch.conf
@@ -3,3 +3,4 @@
 --ignore NEW_TYPEDEFS
 --ignore FILE_PATH_CHANGES
 --ignore OBSOLETE
+--ignore COMMIT_SUBJECT_LONG_LINE
diff --git a/support/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/support/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 66c60825341101236b37c581de119e64d1c4ee96..8ed816be3bf9957b576fc5ef4185bcc94c0c3e9c 100755
--- a/support/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/support/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2398,6 +2398,11 @@ sub process {
 			$found_file = 1;
 		}
 
+#ignore files which ends of .txt/.md, or named 'LICENSE'
+		if (($realfile =~ /\.txt$/) || ($realfile =~ /\.md$/) || ($realfile =~ /^LICENSE$/)) {
+			next;
+		}
+
 #make up the handle for any error we report on this line
 		if ($showfile) {
 			$prefix = "$realfile:$realline: "