Re: [RFC] devtools: replace get-maintainer shell wrapper with Python script

Thomas Monjalon
2026-02-01T20:17:00Z

01/02/2026 20:01, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:51:01 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:
>
> > 31/01/2026 21:48, Stephen Hemminger:
> > > DPDK has been reusing the Linux kernel get_maintainer perl script
> > > but that creates an unwanted dependency on kernel source.
> > >
> > > This new script replaces that with a standalone Python implementation
> > > created in a few minutes with AI. The command line arguments are
> > > a subset of the features that make sense in DPDK.
> >
> > Almost thousand lines for this new script.
> > Are you sure that's something we want to maintain ourself?
>
> It really is less bad than the awk mess.
> And the kernel often changes the rules.
>
> The bigger issue is that the python version is not detecting everything yet.

Our wrapper is very simple.
How much an issue is this dependency? What others think?