linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Convert get

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Message-ID: <87h5ur47eq.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 09:44:45 -0700
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>
Cc: Linux Doc Mailing List <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Convert get_feat to Python

Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:

> Em Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:09:30 -0700
> Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> escreveu:
>
>> Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi Jon,
>> >
>> > That's the final series to complete the migration of documentation
>> > build: it converts get_feat from Perl to Python.
>> >
>> > With that, no Sphinx in-kernel extensions use fork anymore to call
>> > ancillary scripts: everything is now importing Python methods
>> > directly from the libraries.  
>> 
>> This, of course, conflicts with my library move ...  Maybe we review
>> that and I go first this time? :)
>
> Sure, go ahead with the library move, while this is reviewed. 
>
> This one is trivial enough to be rebased on the top of it.

That time has come ... we should still be able to get this one into 6.19
if all goes well.

Thanks,

jon