Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

04/10/2024 18:31, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:14:42 +0100
> Robin Jarry <rjarry@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Both checkpatches.sh and get-maintainer.sh require scripts that come
> > from the linux sources. And they require DPDK_*_PATH variables to be set
> > to point at these scripts locally. For new contributors this can be
> > tedious since they will have to clone the whole linux sources just to
> > have simple perl scripts.
> > 
> > Update checkpatches.sh and get-maintainer.sh to have them download the
> > upstream scripts if they are not found locally. Store the downloaded
> > scripts in the .git/ folder so that they are found for future runs.
> > 
> > If either DPDK_CHECKPATCH_PATH or DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH are set, they
> > will be used in priority.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Robin Jarry <rjarry@redhat.com>
> 
> This makes live easier for new contributors.
> Not sure if is the best way to autodownload, or where to put the scripts
> but something is better than the current way.
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

I would prefer we host our own fork of checkpatch.pl.
There are too many irrelevant checks that we should drop.