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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, techboard@dpdk.org, david.marchand@redhat.com,
	thomas@monjalon.net, mb@smartsharesystems.com,
	ferruh.yigit@amd.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] uapi: introduce kernel uAPI headers import
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:14:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241024091443.56214add@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3eb53ec1-2c57-4efe-b797-60d3aa0785c6@redhat.com>

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:45:10 +0200
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:

> >>
> >>
> >> Rather than copy-pasting headers_install.sh, could you use it directly?
> >>
> >> The copy/paste from GPL-2.0 concerns me.
> >> And the potential upstream change as well.
> >>  
> > 
> > The downside I see by calling directly the headers_install.sh script is
> > that it could trigger some false positives if the version used for
> > import is different from the one used to check.
> > 
> > What we could do it to just do our own sed command if that's really an
> > issue, that we would tailor based on our needs.
> > 
> > Others, any thoughts?  
> 
> Following the discussion during the DPDK Release status meeting this
> morning, I will propose a new version implementing our own sed command,
> tailored to only our needs.

Or you can just ask original author of the headers_install.sh script.
Have done that many times and gotten approval every time when taking
stuff out of kernel infrastructure for DPDK.

  reply	other threads:[~2024-10-24 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-09  8:58 [PATCH v1 0/3] Import Kernel uAPI header files Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-09  8:58 ` [PATCH v1 1/3] uapi: introduce kernel uAPI headers import Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-09 14:50   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-14 12:14     ` Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-24 12:45       ` Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-24 16:14         ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2024-10-09  8:58 ` [PATCH v1 2/3] uapi: import VDUSE header Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-09  8:58 ` [PATCH v1 3/3] vduse: use imported VDUSE uAPI header Maxime Coquelin
2024-10-15 17:10   ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-10-09 10:29 ` [PATCH v1 0/3] Import Kernel uAPI header files Morten Brørup

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