01/02/2026 20:01, Stephen Hemminger: > On Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:51:01 +0100 > Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> 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?
