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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 18:13:42 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] tools: ynl: provide symlinks to user-facing
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:42:28 +0100 Jan Stancek wrote:
> > > Did someone ask for this? Does everything work without the symlinks?
> > > If the answers are "no", "yes" then let's try without this patch.
> > > In tree users should be able to adjust.  
> >
> > I asked for the symlinks for cli.py and ethtool.py to avoid surprising
> > people when they move. The ynl-gen- scripts are primarily used in-tree
> > via Makefiles so I didn't think they should be symlinked. Happy to go
> > with your suggestion to drop this if you'd prefer not to have any
> > symlinks.  
> 
> I'll drop them, we can always add them later in case someone
> _really_ needs original script locations.

FWIW that's my thinking, too.