RE: [MAINTAINERS / KERNEL SUMMIT] AI patch review tools

[Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>]

On Wed, 8 Oct 2025, Bird, Tim wrote:

> > Realistically, we can't even get some submitters to run checkpatch, so
> > I don't think the additional tag would help. 

Agreed.

> > What does help is having the 0day bot take a feed of the mailing list, 
> > select the [PATCH] tag and run checkpatch.pl as part of the tests, so 
> > someone could do the same with whatever AI acceptance tests are 
> > agreed.
> 
> There's no question that 0day automation of checkpatch.pl feedback
> has been a great thing.  I suspect that more submitters would run
> checkpatch before sending their patches, if failure to do so resulted
> in automatic rejection of the patch.  This is more of a process backbone
> issue than anything else.

Quite often the checkpatch-reported warnings are so negligible/trivial 
that it takes less energy to just (a) either take the patch as-is, or (b) 
modify it before application than to go through the whole resubmission 
round (*), so there is no incentive for the submitter to do better next 
time.

I am not saying what is right or wrong, that's just the way it (sometimes) 
is.

(*) Especially if the patch is actually a good and needed one, and you'd 
    need to keep track whether the resubmission really happened, etc.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs