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