Re: [PATCH v4 12/14] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for netlink_yml_parser.py

Jakub Kicinski
2025-06-14T19:46:51Z

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 20:56:09 +0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > I understand that from the PoV of ease of maintenance of the docs.
> > Is it fair to say there is a trade off here between ease of maintenance
> > for docs maintainers and encouraging people to integrate with kernel
> > docs in novel ways?
>
> Placing elsewhere won't make much difference from doc maintainers and
> developers.

I must be missing your point. Clearly it makes a difference to Donald,
who is a maintainer of the docs in question.

> I'm more interested on having a single place where python libraries
> could be placed.

Me too, especially for selftests. But it's not clear to me that
scripts/ is the right location. I thought purely user space code
should live in tools/ and bulk of YNL is for user space.

> Eventually, some classes might be re-used in the future
> by multiple scripts and subsystems, when it makes sense, just like we do
> already with Kernel's kAPIs. This also helps when checking what is the
> Python's minimal version that are required by the Kernel when updating
> it at:

I think this is exactly the same point Donald is making, but from YNL
perspective. The hope is to share more code between the ReST generator,
the existing C generator and Python library. The later two are already
based on a shared spec model.