Re: [PATCH net-next v4 5/8] net: fou: regenerate the uAPI from the spec

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On Tue, 2023-01-24 at 18:49 +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 09:50:38 -0800
> 
> > Regenerate the FOU uAPI header from the YAML spec.
> > 
> > The flags now come before attributes which use them,
> > and the comments for type disappear (coders should look
> > at the spec instead).
> 
> Sorry I missed the whole history of this topic. Wanted to ask: if we can
> generate these headers and even C files, why ship the generated with the
> source code and not generate them during building? Or it's slow and/or
> requires some software etc.?
> 

Currently it requires python 3 (3.6+, I'd think?).

Python is currently not documented as a build requirement in
Documentation/process/changes.rst afaict.

johannes




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