netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 1/2] scripts: Add uapi header import script

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Message-ID: <20250916180100.5f9db66d@kmaincent-XPS-13-7390>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:01:00 +0200
From: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Thomas
 Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2-next 1/2] scripts: Add uapi header import
 script

On Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:41:55 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:21:42 +0200
> Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add a script to automate importing Linux UAPI headers from kernel source.
> > The script handles dependency resolution and creates a commit with proper
> > attribution, similar to the ethtool project approach.
> > 
> > Usage:
> >     $ LINUX_GIT="$LINUX_PATH" iproute2-import-uapi [commit]
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
> > ---  
> 
> Script I use is much simpler.

The aim of my patch was to add a standard way of updating the uAPI header.
Indeed I supposed you maintainers, already have a script for that but for
developers that add support for new features they don't have such scripts.
People even may do it manually, even if I hope that's not the case.
We can see that the git commit messages on include/uapi/ are not
really consistent. 

IMHO using the same script as ethtool was natural.
The final decision is your call but I think we should have a standard script
whatever it is.

Regards,
-- 
Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com