Re: [Ksummit-discuss] Self nomination - Sasha Levin

[Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>]

Le 26.08.2016 13:26, Greg KH a écrit :
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
>>    - Making checkpatch check for (some) of the stable kernel rules
>>    (and possibly recommend adding the stable@ tag in certain cases?).
>>      - Depends on: making checkpatch sane again.
> 
> This sounds interesting.  What do you mean by "sane"?  "sane" as in
> rewriting it so that someone who isn't a perl master can modify it?  Or
> "sane" as in "don't be so pedantic about things that don't matter"?

A few years ago, I did some work on automatically identifying bug fixing 
patches, based on combining information from the log message and the 
code.  For example, one issue would be the number of changes in the 
code, because a big change, even if it was a bug fix, might be too 
complex for stable.  Machine learning was involved.  The obvious weak 
point of the work was that we only had me to label the data, as opposed 
to a real stable maintainer.  If you think it could be useful to pursue 
this work, and do a better job, and would be willing to help out in 
creating the datasets, then perhaps it could be something to pursue 
again.  My collaborator on this work is David Lo of Singapore Management 
University.  I will be visiting him in the first week of September and 
could discuss with him further.  If by chance you think of something 
else where machine learning could be relevant to kernel development, I 
could bring that up as well.  He knows everything about applying machine 
learning to software development issues, but nothing about the Linux 
kernel, or even C code.

julia