[$] The role of LLMs in patch review

Post Syndicated from daroc original https://lwn.net/Articles/1064830/

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 March 19.
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.