[RFC] devtools: replace get-maintainer shell wrapper with Python script

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Sun, 01 Feb 2026 14:51:01 +0100
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> 31/01/2026 21:48, Stephen Hemminger:
> > DPDK has been reusing the Linux kernel get_maintainer perl script
> > but that creates an unwanted dependency on kernel source.
> > 
> > This new script replaces that with a standalone Python implementation
> > created in a few minutes with AI. The command line arguments are
> > a subset of the features that make sense in DPDK.  
> 
> Almost thousand lines for this new script.
> Are you sure that's something we want to maintain ourself?

It really is less bad than the awk mess.
And the kernel often changes the rules.

The bigger issue is that the python version is not detecting everything yet.