Hi, Sorry for looking at it just now.
28/04/2017 18:34, Ferruh Yigit: > This is a wrapper to Linux kernel get_maintainer.pl file and only > supports parsing MAINTAINERS file (no git fallback etc..) That's the reason the same file format was used in DPDK ;) > Requires DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH devel config option set, please check > devtools/load-devel-config. > > DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH should be full patch to the get_maintainer.pl > script, like: > DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH=~/linux/scripts/get_maintainer.pl > > Can be used individually: > ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh <my.patch> > > Or via git send-email, to add maintainers automatically: > git send-email --to-cmd ./devtools/get_maintainer.sh \ > --cc dev@dpdk.org HEAD -4 Please, could you update the contributor's guide? > Currently there is an ugly workaround to be able to use Linux script out > of the kernel tree, later better method can replace it. Yes it is very ugly :/ Could you try to send a patch to Linux to avoid such workaround? If we need to keep this workaround, we should at least make sure the files are always well removed, thanks to a trap invocation. [...] > +workaround > +$DPDK_GETMAINTAINER_PATH $options $@ > +fix_workaround Please check how trap is used in devtools/test-build.sh Thanks
