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

Thomas Monjalon
2026-02-01T13:51:16Z

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?