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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devtools: add script to get maintainers
	from patch
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 00:35:46 +0100
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04/08/2017 16:01, Ferruh Yigit:
> This is a wrapper to Linux kernel get_maintainer.pl file and only
> supports parsing MAINTAINERS file (no git fallback etc..)
> 
> Requires DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH devel config option set, please check
> devtools/load-devel-config.
> 
> DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH should be full path to the get_maintainer.pl
> script, like:
> DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH=~/linux/scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> 
> Can be used individually:
> ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh <my.patch>
> 
> Or via git send-email, to add maintainers automatically:
> git send-email --to-cmd ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh \
> --cc dev@dpdk.org HEAD -4
> 
> Currently there is an ugly workaround to be able to use Linux script out
> of the kernel tree, later better method can replace it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

Sorry for having missed this very convenient patch for months.

Applied, thanks

Have you tried to send a patch to Linux
in order to avoid the workaround below?

> +FILES="COPYING CREDITS Kbuild"
> +FOLDERS="Documentation arch include fs init ipc kernel scripts"
> +
> +# Kernel script checks for some files and folders to run
> +workaround () {
> +	for f in $FILES; do
> +		if [ ! -f $f ]; then touch $f; fi
> +	done
> +
> +	for d in $FOLDERS; do
> +		if [ ! -d $d ]; then mkdir $d; fi
> +	done
> +}