Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-11-26 Thread Robin Jarry
Thomas Monjalon, Nov 26, 2024 at 16:36: The central question is to know how to get those GPL2 scripts accepted in DPDK. These are scripts, not linked to any DPDK related binary. So I think it is OK in terms of license contamination. We MUST preserve the original license headers in these impor

Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-11-26 Thread Thomas Monjalon
26/11/2024 16:16, Robin Jarry: > Thomas Monjalon, Nov 26, 2024 at 15:03: > > I would prefer we host our own fork of checkpatch.pl. > > There are too many irrelevant checks that we should drop. > > How about get_maintainer.pl? Should we host our copy as well? It may makes sense. The central quest

Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-11-26 Thread Robin Jarry
Thomas Monjalon, Nov 26, 2024 at 15:03: I would prefer we host our own fork of checkpatch.pl. There are too many irrelevant checks that we should drop. How about get_maintainer.pl? Should we host our copy as well?

Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-11-26 Thread Thomas Monjalon
04/10/2024 18:31, Stephen Hemminger: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:14:42 +0100 > Robin Jarry wrote: > > > Both checkpatches.sh and get-maintainer.sh require scripts that come > > from the linux sources. And they require DPDK_*_PATH variables to be set > > to point at these scripts locally. For new con

Re: [PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-10-04 Thread Stephen Hemminger
On Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:14:42 +0100 Robin Jarry wrote: > Both checkpatches.sh and get-maintainer.sh require scripts that come > from the linux sources. And they require DPDK_*_PATH variables to be set > to point at these scripts locally. For new contributors this can be > tedious since they will h

[PATCH] devtools: download scripts from linux if not found

2024-03-15 Thread Robin Jarry
Both checkpatches.sh and get-maintainer.sh require scripts that come from the linux sources. And they require DPDK_*_PATH variables to be set to point at these scripts locally. For new contributors this can be tedious since they will have to clone the whole linux sources just to have simple perl sc