• [$] The role of LLMs in patch review

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Tue Mar 31 16:45:07 2026
    [$] The role of LLMs in patch review

    Date:
    Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:40:56 +0000

    Description:
    Discussion of a memory-management patch set intended to clean up a helper function for
    handling huge pages spiraled into something else entirely after it was posted on March19.
    Memory-management maintainer Andrew Morton proposed making changes to the subsystem's review process, to require
    patch authors to respond to feedback from Sashiko ,
    the recently released LLM-based kernel patch review system . Other sub-maintainers, particularly Lorenzo Stoakes, objected. The
    resulting discussion about how and when to adopt Sashiko is potentially relevant
    to many other parts of the kernel.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1064830/


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