Re: [PATCH v1 1/3] uapi: introduce kernel uAPI headers import

[Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>]

On 10/24/24 18:14, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok, what we need for now is really trivial. I'll do it myself.
We can revisit in the future if the need arises.

Thanks,
Maxime