From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC4F4E6526B for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2026 20:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 883F9402B2; Sun, 1 Feb 2026 21:16:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from fhigh-b3-smtp.messagingengine.com (fhigh-b3-smtp.messagingengine.com [202.12.124.154]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1B940150 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2026 21:16:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from phl-compute-08.internal (phl-compute-08.internal [10.202.2.48]) by mailfhigh.stl.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF0767A00F0; Sun, 1 Feb 2026 15:16:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from phl-frontend-03 ([10.202.2.162]) by phl-compute-08.internal (MEProxy); Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:16:56 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=monjalon.net; h= cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type:date :date:from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to; s=fm3; t=1769977015; x=1770063415; bh=sW5EQ9nooL92AxnfB1FmLNc8O2y3C1kag8sQo2wYGiM=; b= KCdEmh3vXgaiCaNNKqz3xt9uxO8pB/qz/pvw9y2gW/odNaZOkTh5wrcZUqlxsCCj 7Pz0GiHEwiuXsGPyXXBEhW5blJ5O1zZxD2l4WaBWKVaRX6EH0vUNBbw76wgycmDG S3+AdaFhcAcstXKexFXhJkMkjXa+mzooUhKZozTfucGunmnOkbK6MVaxOoHLc7ef SGTcmJshFBz1wrHksyuskRevXmqYC2uNW5ti7JMbmlJO43zZSI3iq2WQWW9m+WKU ld0edCsTWAsSspCFTI+ZDjmFx6CNcgPd0EE46ke5+jZtyeCl95E90AjK9JfLAKiP BlfBhsIdWrEio+u9Rn3fnA== DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:cc:content-transfer-encoding :content-type:content-type:date:date:feedback-id:feedback-id :from:from:in-reply-to:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :references:reply-to:subject:subject:to:to:x-me-proxy :x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=fm3; t=1769977015; x= 1770063415; bh=sW5EQ9nooL92AxnfB1FmLNc8O2y3C1kag8sQo2wYGiM=; b=F p0Ck8GNLsuh+WQ4DGgnI6LdnMLpVoO5HDYmbQdJ6PGWzpMh7+pRtxdpybEu65u0P iaiEn5ioPDIfOSXo6YbdyzASWEvmOmSCR4PdIGlhLNBUonydWcu9W5c+9ItTa2aq a+j5npkt5GmFbHUAIqSBetkYwBAsNKVVBWwFFVMLXZvWfZfzjf/iC6Njekho/6Aw k5SVxmQcDj8NF4Ibk7y50pvveoDZIOsJFcMhsXRPq5uBWZTjD0LP3Pg6h9s/NV3D QwsyyrkvpTFxg+kGsUCWRcYt9XAtr56uhZ+BdFj4MmzypQRBOjizVCZnLW9iwXfH 7GVnS6QLo1/E39Rvq+YAw== X-ME-Sender: X-ME-Received: X-ME-Proxy-Cause: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgeefgedrtddtgddujeehjeefucetufdoteggodetrf dotffvucfrrhhofhhilhgvmecuhfgrshhtofgrihhlpdfurfetoffkrfgpnffqhgenuceu rghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucesvcftvggtihhpihgvnhhtshculddquddttddmnecujf gurhephffvvefufffkjghfggfgtgesthfuredttddtjeenucfhrhhomhepvfhhohhmrghs ucfoohhnjhgrlhhonhcuoehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtqeenucggtf frrghtthgvrhhnpeejudevheeiveduuddtveffgfdtgeekueevjeffjeegtdeggeekgfdv uefgfeekjeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedtnecurfgrrhgrmhepmhgrihhlfhhroh hmpehthhhomhgrshesmhhonhhjrghlohhnrdhnvghtpdhnsggprhgtphhtthhopeehpdhm ohguvgepshhmthhpohhuthdprhgtphhtthhopehsthgvphhhvghnsehnvghtfihorhhkph hluhhmsggvrhdrohhrghdprhgtphhtthhopeguvghvseguphgukhdrohhrghdprhgtphht thhopegsrhhutggvrdhrihgthhgrrhgushhonhesihhnthgvlhdrtghomhdprhgtphhtth hopegrtghonhholhgvsehrvgguhhgrthdrtghomhdprhgtphhtthhopegurghvihgurdhm rghrtghhrghnugesrhgvughhrghtrdgtohhm X-ME-Proxy: Feedback-ID: i47234305:Fastmail Received: by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 1 Feb 2026 15:16:54 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas Monjalon To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Bruce Richardson , Aaron Conole , David Marchand Subject: Re: [RFC] devtools: replace get-maintainer shell wrapper with Python script Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2026 21:16:52 +0100 Message-ID: <5531059.31r3eYUQgx@thomas> In-Reply-To: <20260201110108.5d80c3be@phoenix.local> References: <20260131204823.29363-1-stephen@networkplumber.org> <3273409.mvXUDI8C0e@thomas> <20260201110108.5d80c3be@phoenix.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org 01/02/2026 20:01, Stephen Hemminger: > On Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:51:01 +0100 > Thomas Monjalon 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?