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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:45:10 +0200
Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at 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.