On Wed, Oct 08, 2025 at 10:29:11PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> But this also requires these tests are reproducible, and that is one
> question i have. checkpatch, sparse, kdoc, Coccinelle are all
> reproducible. They give the same answer every time. If it passes for
> the developer, it should also pass for the Maintainer. But is this
> true of AI tools? Are they reproducible?

Even for the more stable tools there's issues with people running
different versions of the tools, or for something like DT validation
running with a different schema version.