On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 19:50:40 +0100 Johannes Berg wrote: > 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. Yes, I wanted to avoid bundling in changes which could be controversial. Whether code is generated during build or committed is something we can revisit at any point.
