Re: [PATCH v4 12/14] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for netlink_yml_parser.py
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-06-14 17:37:02
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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Date: 2025-06-14 17:37:02
Also in:
linux-doc, linux-kernel-mentees, lkml
On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:32:35 +0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
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@@ -27314,6 +27315,7 @@ M: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> F: Documentation/netlink/ F: Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst F: Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst +F: scripts/lib/netlink_yml_parser.py F: tools/net/ynl/With regards to the location itself, as I said earlier, it is up to Jon and you to decide. My preference is to have all Python libraries at the entire Kernel inside scripts/lib (or at some other common location), no matter where the caller Python command or in-kernel Sphinx extensions are located.
I understand that from the PoV of ease of maintenance of the docs. Is it fair to say there is a trade off here between ease of maintenance for docs maintainers and encouraging people to integrate with kernel docs in novel ways?