Re: [PATCH v4 12/14] MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for netlink_yml_parser.py

On Sat, 14 Jun 2025 17:32:35 +0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> > > @@ -27314,6 +27315,7 @@ M:      Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]>
> > >  F:     Documentation/netlink/
> > >  F:     Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/intro-specs.rst
> > >  F:     Documentation/userspace-api/netlink/specs.rst
> > > +F:     scripts/lib/netlink_yml_parser.py
> > >  F:     tools/net/ynl/  
> 
> With regards to the location itself, as I said earlier, it is up to
> Jon and you to decide.
> 
> My preference is to have all Python libraries at the entire Kernel
> inside scripts/lib (or at some other common location), no matter where
> the caller Python command or in-kernel Sphinx extensions are located.

I understand that from the PoV of ease of maintenance of the docs.
Is it fair to say there is a trade off here between ease of maintenance
for docs maintainers and encouraging people to integrate with kernel
docs in novel ways?